Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration honoring African heritage and values with festive traditions and meaningful principles. Each day of Kwanzaa highlights a core principle like unity, ...

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke has expressed concern over the growing trend of parents neglecting to instill African cultural values in the upbringing of their children. Speaking recently, the actor ...

Media headlines are full of bad news about LGBTQ+ people across the African continent these days. They are insulted by public officials, attacked and killed by police and vigilantes, and denied access ...

On the occasion of Father’s Day 2024, a day focused on the celebration of fatherhood, four Catholic men from different African countries recently shared their experiences of impacting the lives of ...

The Catholic fathers — who hail from Cameroon, Kenya, and Nigeria — talk about the importance protecting families amid threats to the African family. Alfred Magero, Matthew Njogu, and Edward Chaleh ...

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Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, speaks during a forum addressing international religious freedom issues at the United Nations in New York March 1, 2019. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.

Post-doc Researcher, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa International humanitarian law seeks to limit the excesses of warfare and regulate the ...

Cultural expert Professor Gugu Mazibuko from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is angry over a Constitutional Court ruling allowing husbands to adopt their wives’ surnames, saying it disrespects ...

When Eve* sat down to hear Sharon Slater, head of the Mormon group Family Watch International (FWI) speak, she didn’t expect to hear the star speaker at the Pan-African Conference on Family Values in ...