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A high court has dismissed an urgent application by opposition parties to force parliament to debate a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma before going into end of year recess.


In a historic move for the Anglican church, Bishop Ellinah Wamukoya has been ordained as the first female Anglican bishop in Africa.


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Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, in what is now Somalia, and grew up in Kallafo, in the Somali-speaking...
Somali novelist and writer
Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar was born in 1967 in El Ayoun in Western Sahara. She studied at primary and secondary...
Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is an award...
Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families:...
Rwandan writer whose works have been published in French.
Abena is an allafrica summer intern from Ghana.
Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian doctor, novelist, and writer who fights for women's rights.
Aim? C?saire was a Martinican poet, humanist and political figure who co-founded the movement of Negritude, along with fellow Martinican...
Dark Continent, My Black Arse is Sihle Khumalo's personal and often hilarious account of his perception of Mama Africa, based...