For the first time in 127 years, a black man captained the South African national team, the Springboks, to a Rugby World Cup victory. But his story sh...

2nd October marks the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, a man revered as a saintly and almost legendary figure. But his legacy is increa...

Independence is the day many African countries celebrate ending colonial rule.  But that is barely true in some countries.

Present-day Rwanda leader Pr...

Government-funded partnerships manager at Comic Relief, Chibwe Henry, highlights  the potential impact of diaspora remittances on the economies of rec...

Idi Amin Dada, the self-styled conqueror of the British Empire and a Ugandan dictator. Amin was cruel and unusual,. So, how did he earned a unique inf...

African countries have had many leaders with great and controversial personalities. Mandela, Mobutu, Thomas Sankara, Gaddafi, Naser, Sékou Touré and L...