Few rulers in Africa’s past divide opinion like Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar.

To her enemies, she was “the Mad Monarch”, a tyrant who ordered poison trials, forced tens of thousands into back-breaking labour....

Imagine being dropped in the middle of the Sahara. No roads. No signs. Just sand stretching further than the eye can see. Your phone is dead, GPS kaput. What would you do?

If you're like me, you panic. Game over.

But the....

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, fully alert... but frozen?

Your eyes dart around the room. You try to move your fingers. Nothing. You want to scream, but not even a whisper escapes your lips.

Someone wa....

What if I told you that over two thousand years ago, an African community figured out how to smelt iron into high-grade steel?

Before we get into that, let’s zoom out a little.

In economics class, we’re taught....

Before drones. Before AI. Before “climate-smart agriculture” became the buzzword in boardrooms.

Africa’s crops were vanishing. Not from drought. Not from war. But from an army of insects eating their way through....

The year is 1896.

In Mashonaland, the British South Africa Company is under siege.

The Shona and Matabele people have had enough.

They accuse the British of stealing their land.

Of forcing them into unpaid....

It’s time you bought a ship

Yes, you heard me right.

I was initially going to share about the forgotten naval battle of Lake Tanganyika. A dramatic story of WWI, where European powers shipped gunboats across the Afr....