The continent celebrated 58 years since the formation of the Africa Union (formerly Organization of Africa Unity) towards the end of last month. The 2021 theme is ‘Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for building the Africa we Want.’ This year’s commemoration comes in the wake of health, economic and...
Ebenezer Immanuel Obeng-Akrofi Devoid of any attempt to extenuate the absolute truth, Ghana has woefully failed and has exposed herself as a country with notoriously delinquent leadership with a knack for poor governance particularly when it comes to fighting cancerous social ills with covert benefits for the political class....
Goma c’est la capitale de la province du Nord-Kivudans l’est de la RDC. Une province régulièrement victime de massacres des groupes armés.Aujourd’hui, elle est durement frappée par l’éruption du volcan Nyiragongo. Au moins 32 personnes ont perdu la vie. Parmi les problèmes engendrés par la coulée de lave, figure...
By Margaret Chinowaita Zimbabwe’s Vice President Position fell vacant following the disgraceful fall of the incumbent Kembo Mohadi after...
Have ten years of boycott ruined or exhausted the opposition in Côte d’Ivoire? It depends. It is clear that...
By Ebenezer Immanuel Obeng-Akrofi Over the years, if there is anything that history has taught men about governance it...
Kenyans have long challenged power by laughing. But the Kenyan government has started cracking down on humour. “At a...
The Northern part of Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado has since October 2017 faced insurgency from alleged Islamist Ansar...
When the phrase “journalists in exile” is mentioned, many tend to think that it’s a thing of the past....
That is a question many have been asking since November 2020. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive...
Paidamoyo Muzulu The decades-long underfunding of Zimbabwe education system effects revealed themselves when the country recorded a massive 9%...
By Linda Apollo Kenya is attempting to amend its 2010 constitution through a process that has been dubbed ‘the...
Since COVID-19 was first reported in Africa in early March 2020, the virus has continued to disrupt lives across the continent. Even with hopes of a vaccine gaining traction, more than 1.5 million cases and over 35,000 deaths have been reported, healthcare services remain exposed, education has almost ground to a halt and economies are struggling. Africa Blogging contributors from across the continent have analysed how different countries are responding to the pandemic.
Go to topicUgandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija narrates the harrowing story of how he was arrested and reportedly tortured for writing two novels The Greedy Barbarian and The Banana Republic. He also talks about the role social media played in his release.
In this episode, I chat with Ruth Aine, a fellow AfricaBlogging author from Uganda discussing the five-day internet blackout in our country that began on the eve of the 2021 general elections. We share our personal experiences and discuss the effects to the economy and free speech in the...
The proliferation of smartphone devices has led to more meaningful access to the internet as more Ugandans are using the internet to politically organise, speak truth to power. In this episode, we chat with Songa Stone about the role social media is playing in the 2021 upcoming general elections...