For the Youth Olympic Games, Senegal has relied heavily on substantial direct public funding with support from its partners.

Ian Berry’s photographs of the Sharpeville massacre provided evidence of a crime against humanity.

Has romance turned into a marketplace where intimacy is measured through transactions?

Sunny Adé is celebrated as the King of Jùjú music.

Among contemporary African musicologists, Agawu has been one of the most distinctive voices over the past half-century.

As ill health besets the Nigerian film and theatre legend, a tribute is in order. In his career he has always placed his country and industry first.

Communities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago.

Digital platforms offer opportunities for African dance influencers to construct their own visions of what it means to be African.

While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.

Tupac is proof that being young, marginal and Black does not necessarily mean being powerless.

Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.

African nations consistently vote for Infantino because they depend on Fifa for financial support.

The vast prayer camps challenge stereotypes of Nigerian cities as chaotic, dysfunctional, and driven by religious tension.

In these spaces, lifelong relationships can be formed through the love of cinema.

Royal relics in Madagascar confer legitimacy on rulers.

English was imposed as Nigeria’s official language, but the British had no way of controlling what people did with it.

Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.

Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.

Tired colonial tropes paint Africans as untamed, unrestrained, and lacking in intelligence.

One of west Africa’s most popular action films speaks to Nigeria’s pressing security issues.

Although it may seem strange to westerners, soccer and esoteric rituals go hand in hand in Africa.

Ten pivotal moments that tell the story of how African football transformed itself.

Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.

To secure health and wealth, many people combine elements from different religious traditions. One such movement is Chrislam.

Buddhist meditation and Pentecostal speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. But not to the brain.

Power and pleasure collide with Black hopes and dreams in the show that has sparked global conversation.

In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.

New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.

According to one study, 75% of respondents believe chatbots are conscious.

She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.

The World Cup is selling football as inclusive and diverse. It’s not so for the African players migrating to play overseas.

The song was written hot, as the news of the massacre reached the world. Its creators spanned the continent.

New research indicates that collective forms of governance were more likely.

In his work Abdullah Ibrahim looked to the past to offer a vision of the future.

Charl Blignaut reflects on the life of his friend Maria McCloy, whose name he first encountered in a flip file in 1997.…

The incident is being treated as an embarrassment. It’s something more serious: a failure of the very standards the revised policy must uphold.

A look at six African intellectuals whose work challenges dominant narratives and reclaims Africa as a producer of knowledge, not just its object.

Dialogue was at the heart of how Saint Augustine practised both philosophy and theology.

Pope Leo’s Africa visit offers a powerful historical reminder of the continent’s foundational role in shaping the early church.

City transformation is increasingly being shaped by a complex interaction between the past and the future.

Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.

The film insists that young Africans are not just passive recipients of imported technologies. They’re also active creators.

Ghana’s resolution represents a decisive step in an ongoing effort of historical reclamation and political transformation.

A final is not just a result. It is also a narrative, a memory, and a shared collective moment.

Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.

The Hasselblad is the world’s largest award for photography. It cements Muholi’s global influence.

Intra-African trafficking, particularly through digital deception and aspirational manipulation, remains largely invisible.

A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.

What’s the secret to being the most followed person on the planet on TikTok?

Some Afrobeats songs use moral language that softens and normalises cybercrime.