At the 1995 Zimbabwe International Bookfair the organisation of Gays and Lesbians in Zimbabwe was prevented from taking part. This opened up an unprecedented debate in southern Africa, which is conveyed in this report, together with a survey of African views on homosexuality, a global overview on homosexuality and the law, and an address list of human rights organi...

In 1906, Pixley kaIsaka Seme, a future president of the African National Congress, delivered an oration at New York's Columbia University, entitled ‘The regeneration of Africa’. This can be seen as an important contribution to discourse on the notion of an African Renaissance, the history of which discourse extends from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day...