A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the ...

As insurgency intensifies and civic space shrinks in the West African state, a different kind of battle is unfolding online ...

As Western media and white-led newsrooms bypass Africa’s political tectonics, a quiet shift is capturing the attention of ...

Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has ...

Burkinabe leader Ibrahim Traoré is acting like a rock star. It’s not entirely his fault. He’s receiving a lot of help from ...

There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen – this seems to be the state of play in ...

I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones - Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere, Mandela, Sankara, etc. I know because of the thoughtless and ...

Human Rights Watch says at least 100 civilians in Burkina Faso were killed by government forces near the town of Solenzo in ...