The trans-Atlantic slave trade that sent 12.5 million human beings in chains from Africa to the Americas — killing about two million along the way — has been described by the historian David... Read more
New York, May 19, 2015 – The attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 shed light on the grave dangers confronting those who draw satirical and political cartoons. Bu... Read more
By Kalu Ojah In the wake of the Nigerian election, speculation has been growing that Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be dumped from Muhammadu Buhari’s new government. Were that to... Read more
By Bola Ahmed Tinubu The destructive attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans are tragic and mindlessly wrong. The assaults sorely bruise the objective of inter-Af... Read more
By Ferial Haffajee If Chumani Maxwele were Chinese, there is a good chance he would own a string of start-ups and be well on his way to becoming a multimillionaire. Instead, this student lea... Read more
By: Denja Yaqub Until 1994, for over a century South Africa was locked against the rest of Africa and indeed the country and her people were not easily accessible to the rest of the world as... Read more