Africa has made a strong showing at this year’s Academy Awards. The brutal depiction of slavery in 12 Years a Slave secured a best actress nomination for Kenyan actress and Read More..

Superstar rapper D’Banj is the executive producer of the soundtrack album for Half of a Yellow Sun. He is working alongside legendary Yewande Sadiku and Onyeka Onwenu — who played Read More..

Kenya’s Constitution permits access to safe abortion, yet Kenyan women still resort to unsafe methods of termination with countless women dying as a consequence. Saoyo Tabitha Griffith analyses what the Read More..

While many African countries consider homosexual acts illegal with anti-gay bills looming in parliament, in a rather unpredicted move Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently opposed the anti-gay bill passed by Read More..

Hip-hop, extending from traditional griot culture, is marking its place throughout Africa. A place given and defined by young-African-emcees garnering global fame and respect.

On 5 December 2013, while ‘Operation Sangaris’ was still in its infancy, ‘Anti-Balaka’ elements armed with machetes, launched attacks and massacred many Muslims whom they accused of supporting the Seleka Read More..