‘People thought they knew the story’: the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli
A revealing new documentary takes an inside look at the most infamous…
Ama Ata Aidoo: pioneering writer from Ghana
Prolific author and former Ghanaian education minister Ama Ata Aidoo passed away on 31…
Why a Namibian artist records his music in the dark
Lazarus Shiimi, or Gazza as he’s more popularly known, is one of…
I don’t want anyone else to use rags for sanitary pads
Tamara Magwashu was bullied at school as her family was not rich…
Venice Biennale: The woman behind the whirlwind festival
Lesley Lokko has spent the last two years planning the world's biggest…
Rock & roll superstar, Tina Turner
Rock’n’roll singer whose comeback after her turbulent early career made her one…
The mother who fled Shakahola forest to save her children
Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an…
Gay Ugandan asks ‘Where will I go?’ as secret shelters under threat
Uganda's parliament last week passed one of the world's toughest laws against…
Searching for my roots in an Algerian cemetery
In our series of letters from African journalists, Maher Mezahi writes about…
‘I speak for the animals’: the Ugandan judge who strikes fear into poachers
Having tried more than 1,000 wildlife crime cases, Gladys Kamasanyu is changing…
