Africa

Young Nigerians are flocking to TikTok - why it's a dou...

TikTok has exploded in popularity among young people in Nigeria. Here’s why it’s...

New book on South Africa's history puts black people at...

This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the...

Making sense of Wole Soyinka's difficult and brilliant ...

The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thrille...

Acts of violence or a cry for help? What fuels Kenya's ...

Student violence is a response to the devaluing and oppressive environment in bo...

Skin lighteners: fashion and family still driving uptak...

Skin lighteners are being used more than ever before, especially in urban areas ...

African development banks need scale, urgently. Here's ...

African countries can’t afford to tread water waiting for the global multilatera...

The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was ...

There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very diff...

Barney Rachabane: South Africa's little giant who took ...

The saxophone legend played much more than jazz - he delighted in layering style...

Statistical ecology can unlock the power of biodiversit...

There is a promising trend of growing research and training in statistical ecolo...

Defining what's ethical in artificial intelligence need...

Inclusivity and diversity also need to be at the level of identifying values and...

Rape culture in Côte d'Ivoire can shift if survivors ge...

The practice of blaming and stigmatising rape survivors has devastating conseque...

La nouvelle loi progressiste du Bénin sur l'avortement ...

La nouvelle loi béninoise sur l'avortement prendra en considération la situation...

South Africa faces a slowly worsening chronic fiscal cr...

National Treasury’s strategy to overcome South Africa’s chronic fiscal crisis re...

The story of an independent Tanzanian publisher who hel...

Despite a succession of different challenges, Bgoya’s approach has been consistent.

A fossil cranium from Kenya tells the story of an extin...

The anatomy of the teeth in the cranium and its bones show that it belongs to an...

Curious Kids: Why are there so few impact craters on Ea...

Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these bowl-shaped “dents” in Earth’s r...