Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...

For more than a decade, musician Thomas Nhassavele has been busking next to the parking payment machine at Johannesburg's ...

On May 2, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) is scheduled to meet for its first public session since the African Union adopted the Convention on Ending Violence Against Women ...

In a world that often tries to label African women, the film Black Women and Sex lets them write their own stories. This ...

This week Africa celebrates the 19th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), and the world begins the 16 ...

Street art graffiti is spreading in West Africa. In Guinea's capital, an artist from Senegal is transforming city walls and ...

The 77 Percent explores the connection between money and relationships in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg. Love or money? The ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Officials in South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg have proposed renaming a major street after a Palestinian woman who was involved in a hijacking more than 50 years ago, ...

Only two women have been directly elected by their populations to the presidency in African countries: President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia in 2006 and President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of ...