Western journalists often write about Africa in absolute terms, offering reductionist narratives from which their readers form impressions of a continent they’ve never visited. I’m a...
"Africa is not poor, it is poorly managed", said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2009. Equatorial Guinea, whose president has been in power for 35...
To many observers, Africans tend not to kiss in public because they’re prudes. Consequently, some Africans have bought the idea that kissing in public is a...
African sports people have broken new ground in their different sporting codes worldwide. We see them shine at the Olympics, at football World Cups and in...
Malawi turned 50 years old recently, and as with any birthday celebration it was time to look at achievements in the past, if any, and also...