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Premium badgeZimbabwe: Uebert Angel, the man of God accused of money laundering

Uebert Angel, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s envoy and ambassador at large to Europe and the Americas, is portrayed as a central figure among powerful...

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amapiano envoys

South Africa: Major League DJz link up with Major Lazer for ‘Piano Republik’ album No one has frontlined the global expansion of amapiano quite like Major League DJz. The DJ duo, which consists of 32 year old twins Banele and Bandile...
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BOUNDARY BREAKER

We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo “Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a pre...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Maputo on 31 May 2023. ©Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS/SIPA

BETWEEN BRICS & A HARD PLACE

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Sergei Lavrov guest stars at BRICS reunion The foreign affairs ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Cape Town to prepare for the next heads of state summit...

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© Uebert Angel (photo twitter: @UebertAngel)

gold trail

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Uebert Angel, the man of God accused of money laundering Uebert Angel, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s envoy and ambassador at large to Europe and the Americas, is portrayed as a central figure among powerful...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Maputo on 31 May 2023. ©Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS/SIPA

BETWEEN BRICS & A HARD PLACE

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Sergei Lavrov guest stars at BRICS reunion The foreign affairs ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Cape Town to prepare for the next heads of state summit...
© Motswana novelist Gothataone Moeng. (photo: Kieron Walquist)

interplay of voices

Premium badgeGothataone Moeng brings stories from Botswana to a wider audience with ‘Call and Response’ Tensions between past and present, tradition and modernity, and urban and rural spaces provide the basis for the debut collection of short stories by ...

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© Uebert Angel (photo twitter: @UebertAngel)

gold trail

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Uebert Angel, the man of God accused of money laundering Uebert Angel, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s envoy and ambassador at large to Europe and the Americas, is portrayed as a central figure among powerful...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Maputo on 31 May 2023. ©Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS/SIPA

BETWEEN BRICS & A HARD PLACE

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Sergei Lavrov guest stars at BRICS reunion The foreign affairs ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Cape Town to prepare for the next heads of state summit...
© Motswana novelist Gothataone Moeng. (photo: Kieron Walquist)

interplay of voices

Premium badgeGothataone Moeng brings stories from Botswana to a wider audience with ‘Call and Response’ Tensions between past and present, tradition and modernity, and urban and rural spaces provide the basis for the debut collection of short stories by ...

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© Motswana novelist Gothataone Moeng. (photo: Kieron Walquist)

interplay of voices

Premium badgeGothataone Moeng brings stories from Botswana to a wider audience with ‘Call and Response’ Tensions between past and present, tradition and modernity, and urban and rural spaces provide the basis for the debut collection of short stories by ...
Nigerian soldiers deployed to prevent violence on Lagos Island

tough love

Premium badgeNigeria: Solving insecurity a litmus test for Tinubu administration On Bola Tinubu’s first full day in office as Nigeria’s president, a brawl broke out in Lagos between the country’s secret police and the anti-graft ag...
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Guilty, again

Swiss court upholds ex-Liberian warlord’s 20-year-sentence A Swiss appeals court on Thursday upheld a 20-year sentence for a former Liberian warlord, confirming his war crimes conviction and, for the first tim...
© Supporters hold a banner bearing a portrait of the President of the Opposition Collaborating Parties (CPP), Alexander Cummings, during a rally against poor living conditions.(Photo by Emmanuel Tobey/AFP)

shifting alliances

Premium badgeLiberia’s opposition enters into alliances ahead of elections Liberia’s opposition has currently turned to cementing coalitions and alliances in a bid to win in the upcoming October 2023 elections. This push for ...
© Some of the Benin bronzes stolen by the British from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897, on display at the British Museum. (Photo:Joy of museums/Wikimedia commons)

Oba ownership

Premium badgeNigeria: Do Benin Bronzes belong to Oba kingdom or the people? The Oba of Benin is the rightful owner of the Benin Bronzes, according to an official gazette signed by then-president Muhammadu Buhari on 28 March. T...
Mohamed Bazoum, President of Niger, in his office in Niamey, during an interview with Jeune Afrique on 1 May 2023. © Vincent Fournier pour JA

tough talk

Premium badgeNiger’s Mohamed Bazoum: ‘Arming civilians to fight terrorists is a tragic mistake.’ Mali, Burkina Faso, anti-French sentiment, Wagner, democracy, corruption…Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum speaks has no qualms about speaking his mind...