Javicia Leslie has become TV’s first black Batwoman. She is the new lead actress in the CW TV show’s second season. Leslie will play Ryan Wilder, a new character who will take over from Kate Kane.
The skulls of 24 Algerian anti-colonial soldiers, beheaded by French forces during colonial France's conquest of the North African country that had been lying in storage in a Paris museum, were formally buried on Sunday.
The skulls were received from...
Sibusiso Mthembu is a self-proclaimed prophet from Mandeni, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa who claims he has been to heaven four times.
Sibusiso Mthembu, now 72, said there were 11 heavens and he had drawn a map of them.
Mthembu had his...
The World Bank on Wednesday classified Mauritius as a High Income country while Tanzania and Benin are now considered Lower-middle income countries.
The East African island nation of Mauritius is now a high-income country, according to the World Bank, joining...
Gorée is a small island located off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal. The island is known as the location of "The House of Slaves", a slave cell where African slaves were kept captive until they could be sold.
The...
Migingo, a tiny rock island on Lake Victoria, in Kenya, measures just 2,000-square-metre, but is officially home to over 500 residents making it the most densely populated island in the world.
Migingo Island covers less than half a football pitch...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been acknowledged as the third (3rd) most productive school in educating entrepreneurs in an online publication by Forbes titled: “If You Want To Start A Tech-Company In Africa, Go To College.”
UNILAG was ranked...
The Nigerian woman who was put up for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has refused to return home, and has instead negotiated a contract with another employer, according to the head of Nigeria's diaspora commission.
The woman was listed for...
Madagascar’s education minister has been sacked after a plan to order $2.2m (£1.7m) worth of sweets to mask the "bitter" aftertaste of the Covid-Organics was revealed.
Rijasoa Andriamanana said last week she was ordering the sweets for children to take...
A 23-year-old Nigerian writer, Innocent Ilo, has been named the regional winner for Africa of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story, “When a Woman Renounces Motherhood.”
Founded in 2012, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
