Area and surrounding counties were selected after each submitted a 250-word essay detailing why they should be included in the media bootcamp. The participants were...
The tree that launched a thousand books.Reuters/Ed Harris Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating...
Cape Town – The crime thriller Nommer 37debuts at the kykNet Silwerskerm Festival on Friday 29 August. Irishaad Ally, best known for his role in Four...
Getty Images The Oscar organization will conduct 16 investigations to decide what merits further consideration. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected...
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into an upper-middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement; his father, Reverend...
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into an upper-middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement; his father, Reverend...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that food insecurity continues to deepen in South Sudan as funding for life-saving assistance dwindles....
Ethiopia may not be known internationally for its wildlife, unlike neighbouring Kenya, but the government has launched a plan both to protect and promote wildlife...
By NICHOLAS KULISH A saleswoman in a red shirt talking to shoppers at a furniture and appliance store in the Daveytown mall outside Johannesburg. CreditJoao Silva/The New...
Photo: Caine Prize 2014 Nairobi-based author Okwiri Oduor. Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor has won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for...
The African countries and economies were being handed over to the Africans to handle and run by their colonial masters starting with countries such as...
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Beyond his successful literary career,...
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Beyond his successful literary career,...