Making Sense

“You have entered the oldest surviving slave building in South Africa” reads a sign at the entrance of one of Cape Town’s most important museums: ...

Ska Rwanda än en gång visa vägen i Afrika? Ja, det verkar så. Tillsammans med organisationen Care International har YMCA Rwanda startat projektet Safe Schools ...

What is all the fuss about? This is the first time since 1980 (independence), that Zimbabweans go to the polls without Robert Mugabe as the ...

I had gone to bed early that evening. Completely knackered after a long day, I was half-asleep when I heard a WhatsApp tune from my ...

A few years ago, we were once more travelling to Rwanda to write about the progress and development of this tiny country in the middle ...

Land reform – or the lack thereof – has become one of the most hotly debated issues in South Africa during the first 100 days ...

Two years ago, I started the research for my book about the descendants of the white settlers in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. When independence came ...

A two-litre soft drink and a loaf of white bread is the standard diet for most construction workers in Cape Town. At least that is ...

One year ago, Andreas and I did our first feature story for Waterfront, the magazine produced by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Since then, the ...