Nigeria’s Efik queen wants to take royal meetings online
In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani reflects on the role of traditional rulers in the...
The women fighting South Africa’s ‘infodemic’
In South Africa, a small group of volunteers is waging an online battle against Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation. Much of it comes from abroad,...
Hunting rare birds in Pakistan to feed the sex drive of princes
In 1983, two army officers stopped at a car rental office in Pasni, a small coastal town in south-west Pakistan.
One of them asked the...
Uganda climate change: The people under threat from a melting glacier
Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains, a Unesco World Heritage site on the border between...
Ivermectin: South African medics using unproven worm drug to treat Covid-19
The drug Ivermectin, which has been touted by some as an effective coronavirus treatment even though it is clinically unproven, is at the centre...
