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Nigerians are used to seeing political promises broken. But what if someone recorded what was promised and measures progress (or lack of it)

Senior police and politicians in South Africa are distorting police data, with implications for budgets and the right to protest, University...

International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a far more nuanced picture of w...

The last decade has seen a revival of a very old and long-discredited idea: that intelligence is influenced by racial origin.

The international community’s response to Ebola suffered from an old trick in development aid: countries announce huge amounts of funding at

Twenty percent of images that made it to the penultimate stage of this year’s World Press Photo awards were disqualified for excessive manip

International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a far more nuanced picture of w

Presenting Boko Haram as part of a global terror organisation draws the attention away from Nigeria’s own responsibility in the situation. A...

HIV/AIDS educators often seem to enjoy raising an eyebrow at outlandish beliefs over the disease. But in doing so they fail to realise that

Without doubt numerous people were killed by the militant group Boko Haram in the northern Nigerian town of Baga and surrounding areas betwe

The matric pass rate is seen as perhaps the most important indicator of education in South Africa. But with fewer pupils actually reaching a

An Italian politician claimed last year that Boko Haram controlled 60% of Nigerian territory and that “the remaining part [of the country] i