Lynsey Chutel

Durban, South Africa

Last year was tough for Africa’s wealthy. Across the continent, the rich saw their ranks decline. Tiny Mauritius, however, bucked the trend in a big way.

Mikael Owunna had never seen photos of queer Africans before the fall of 2013. Then, at Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he came across an exhibition by celebrated South African photographer Zanele Muholi.

A fake blog post by a fake author has caused very real problems for the Huffington Post in South Africa.

Investor interest in Africa may have been piqued since the start of the 21st century, but many of the world’s Fortune 500 still seem reluctant to actually move to the continent. And if the do, they rarely stray from the beaten path.

Pretoria

Africa’s rise has not taken its young people along with it.

Things look pretty bleak in South Africa right now. The political chaos of the present has made the economic future uncertain—and the lexicon of credit-ratings firms part of everyday conversations here.

For months, South Africans have fretted about the possibility of a credit-ratings downgrade, concerned it would affirm that president Jacob Zuma’s leadership and infighting in the ruling African National Congress were dragging the country in the wrong direction.

South Africa’s government is in turmoil after president Jacob Zuma axed the finance minister and his deputy and shuffled 18 other cabinet members in a dramatic midnight move on Mar. 31.

South African president Jacob Zuma has finally fired the much respected finance minister and shuffled 20 ministers and deputy ministers into new roles.

Refusing to live in Donald Trump’s America, esteemed Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is relocating to South Africa. He will join the University of Johannesburg as Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Just as it seemed South Africa’s battered currency was regaining strength, the country’s political uncertainty is once again eroding investor confidence.

Now would be as good a time as any for the notoriously relaxed Cape Town to lose its cool, yet for the most part life in the picturesque city loved by international tourists ambles along.

An apology and aid just won’t do it. Namibia’s government plans to sue Germany over the atrocities that amounted to Germany’s first, but largely forgotten genocide.

Millions of South Africans rely on the safety net provided by South Africa’s social welfare service, from children to war veterans.

How do you say deal in French? Well it’s time investors learned this and more in order to take advantage of the economic opportunities in Francophone Africa.

The rivalry between Cape Town and Johannesburg has reached a new territory: the tech industry.

A London mother just wanted her daughter to grow up thinking there was nothing wrong with her healthy, puffy Afro. So she found a way to put up a larger than life positive image.

The scramble for the .africa domain name isn’t over yet.

Now that former president Yahya Jammeh is gone, The Gambia doesn’t seem so bad.

The most enduring popular image of the San people is from the film The Gods Must Be Crazy, a 1980s comedy brimming with slapstick and insult.

Cape Town

The CEO of MTN South Africa has resigned.