In Ghana, every person with a job must feed many members of an extended family

In spite of his merits, Rwandan President Kagame is the wrong man to head the African Union

Kenya’s government strikes out against the opposition like a wounded buffalo

Why Ellen Johnson Sirleaf should not be awarded the Mo Ibrahim Prize

In Uganda, rural women engage in production of banana wine

In fighting cancer, awareness raising is an important first step

Because of poverty, fear, ignorance and taboos, cancer is normally diagnosed late in Benin

In Nigeria, the poor tend to ignore the early symptoms of hypertension that must be taken seriously

The tobacco industry in Malawi uses first-line technology to detect fraud

The ANC is deeply split – but that can be read as healthy sign of inner-party democracy