An in tray of Olympic challenges spanning political, social, sporting and operational issues awaits the next IOC president who will be elected Thursday. Seven ...

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African ...

However, in recent decades, Africa's relationship with the global system has begun to shift, and China has been a key ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

According to the 2025 edition of the IPU–UN Women “Women in politics” map, men outnumber women by more than three times in executive and legislative positi ...

China has become Africa's single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in traditionally dominant states are increasingly using maps drenched in red or ... economic (as it does ...

“Political processes, electoral processes, leadership decision making processes and positions, have been so commercialised in Africa, such that they’re no longer about representation. It’s ...

The first victims in one of the villages were children who ate a bat and died within 48 hours, the Africa office of the World Health Organization said this week. More infections were found in the ...

Tanzanian vice president Omar Ali Juma claimed on February 8 that political reconciliation would not be possible in Zanzibar for as long as the Civic United Front (opposition) headed by Seif Sharif ...