09/4/2014
Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda that led to the deaths of up to a million people, a powerful exhibition brings work by Rwandan photographers to London, here, in conjunction with the exhibition we publish a selection of these riveting images that portray the complex present of …
Uganda’s war over homosexuality threatens to spread to other African countries and has further damaged the increasingly strained relationship between Africa and Western donors. For the donors it is a matter of human rights for minorities – a corner ...
07/4/2014
Rwanda: The rains are here … and so is the sorrow Nathalie Munyampenda It’s the end of March. The rains are here and the sorrow kept at bay, sets in. Twenty years ago, around this time, with hate radio RTLM warning of ‘a little something coming around Ea...
01/4/2014
Richard Dowden spent last week touring South Africa looking at projects where the country leads the world or is working on things you would not expect to find in Africa. This is the first of his reports. Each day this week he will add a short description of an...
31/3/2014
The referendum in Crimea is a dangerous precedent reminiscent of the Austrian Anschluss and the other uprisings in eastern Europe to join Germany in the 1930s. I used to think that Europe’s states had grown naturally, organically – in contrast to Africa’...
19/3/2014
Five Minutes with…Jackie Sibblies Drury Playwright, ‘We Are Proud to Present…. What inspired you to write We are proud….? I was doing research for a very different play, one that was going to be about a German actor named Gunther Kaufman, who was the s...
05/3/2014
Students, The Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance wants to be used Restless Development youth delegates attend the forum ‘African Youth: Fulfilling the Potential’ hosted by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Source: Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Flickr M...
03/3/2014
Homecoming Revolution, an organisation establised in South Africa in 2003 wants to encourage more African Diasporans to work and live in their countries of origin. In March, they hold a large expo in London featuring top employers recruiting people in the UK ...
13/2/2014