Known as ting or amazimba, indigenous sorghum is resilient and rich in cultural and health benefits – yet crops are declining.
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While many people rely on written signage to find their way around, oral language plays a significant role in giving directions in rural areas.
This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Group Theory: Black Music is the name of the new album from the composer, drummer and scholar. On it jazz meets political theory.
Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.
The thorny issue of testosterone testing has made news, not just the growing skills on the field.
Despite being almost erased from history, Sithole’s ideas are still relevant today.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
On in South Africa at the Encounters film festival, the documentary is an intimate portrait of the great artist.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
The study reveals a consistently biased and negative depiction of sex workers by news media in Nigeria.
Lumumba Hall residents are more generous and trust each other more than Livingstone Hall residents do.
The ancient Greeks had the same problems with populism, hate speech and fake news as Twitter does today.
Banned 45 years ago, and its author detained, the Gikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda profoundly shaped the literary legend.
English has failed often as the main language of court in proceedings - this impacts testimony and must be addressed.
‘A camera is more powerful than an AK47,’ said the veteran photojournalist, who was also famous for his jazz photos.
Harare aims to join a growing list of African cities hosting high profile events to sell local art and bolster artists.
Lifting awards at film festivals is just the start of the journey for documentaries like The Last Shelter (Mali), No U-Turn (Nigeria) and No Simple Way Home (South Sudan).
Blood Sisters is untypical of Nollywood’s normal fair in a number of ways. It chooses thrill over romance and challenges taboos.