Women are wearing local fabrics in western designs; men are wearing western fabrics in local designs. This reflects the city’s cosmopolitan outlook.
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African football skills are sought after in the hugely popular Chinese Super League – and China gains soft power in Africa in the process.
Research in Madagascar points to economic constraints as the main reason firstborns take on adult lives relatively young, compared with their younger siblings.
Seven queer African creative works you should know about, from short stories to music videos.
Kenya’s institutions, communities and leaders need to make the new law work for those it was designed to serve.
TikTok reveals both the liberating and the repressive effects of social media use in Egypt.
Few have challenged colonial knowledge systems as profoundly as Mudimbe.
The most pressing challenge facing African Catholicism is how to wean itself from western resources.
Zimbabwe is named after an ancient stone city and its stone sculpture is world famous.
Planning ahead allows families to mourn, rather than scramble.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have him tell his own story.
Jobs, the digital economy, heritage restitution and the climate crisis are highlighted by an Africa-led G20.
The victims in more than half of all the ritual murders reported in Ghana and Kenya were children.
Woman-to-woman marriage exemplifies the flexibility of African gender constructs. It’s an assertion of female agency.
Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much more than just patriarchy.
The story is told from the inner sanctum of the state security apparatus that fought an urban terror campaign in South Africa between 1998 and 2002.
The IOC is betting on a younger female leader to signal change. She enters the ring at a crucial time for athletes.
Fact-checking is seen as an effective strategy to combat misinformation and disinformation.
Online harassment of journalists is becoming a serious problem in an age of social media.
End of the Game sparks critical conversations on wildlife conservation and responsible tourism.
Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.
The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.
Kente cloth reflects Asante beliefs, values and history.
Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named after her.
Pope Francis transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.