Unless African leaders step up to the plate and tackle the continent’s energy needs through lateral thinking and solid leadership, there’s little hope that the “dark continent” will see the light anytime soon.

Have a look as celebrity couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard pay hilarious tribute to amazing Africa, to the tune of Toto’s hit song “Africa.”

Hashtags are all fun and games until somebody bans short dresses, right?

Early last month the president told delegates at a business event that Africa is the largest continent and that all the other continents can fit into it… no jokes.

You have to see this!

There’s a new scientific alliance in Africa, but if it’s going to survive, it needs the support of the African community.

The African continent is completely ridiculous sometimes and we have to appreciate it in all it’s ridiculousness cause otherwise, what is life even?

The side of Africa the media and movies never show you.

Scatterlings of Africa is the radio station plays the big South African songs from your past, while introducing South Africans everywhere to the new sound of home that is as colourful as our culture, and and as good as our biltong, creme soda, and bobotie!

The fight against terrorism is global. Extremist group Boko Haram has been accused of bombing a market in Nigera.

A selection of the best of African limited edition design, courtesy of Southern Guild Gallery in Cape Town, will be showcased at the Christie’s Design Auction in London.

Of course there are problems on the continent, but there are also plenty of positives. There have been seven female presidents across Africa and Rwanda has the highest proportion of female parliamentarians, to name a few.

Would borders that help trade and movement of people help boost the African economy?

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki wants those who have left the continent to seek opportunities elsewhere to come home.

How many of these take you back to your own childhood under the African sun?

Instead of focusing on the negative, let’s take a look at all that Africa has to be proud of. Here’s a reminder of just how brilliant our continent is.

What makes a person an African? Is it the colour of their skin, the place they were born, where and how they were raised or what they carry in their hearts?

The annual AIF awards, in recognition of Africa’s young inventors were held in Morocco.

The Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete Africa sank over two centuries ago while carrying slaves from Mozambique to Brazil.

I recently attended the Oxford Africa Conference 2015 (22nd-23rd May) on behalf of Homecoming Revolution. It was interesting to hear views on the various challenges facing such a rapidly growing continent, as well as stories from professionals who have recently made the move back home.

“Let’s realise that a change can only come, when we stand together as one…”

Yesterday was the 22nd annual World Water Day, designated by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993 to raise awareness of water-related issues worldwide. A life-changing product has been introduced to the South African market that converts contaminated water into safe drinking water.

Many music lovers have a genuine admiration for the Southern African and Zimbabwean musical works of Mtukudzi and Zahara.

The amount of swag and skill that this Jozi toddler has is enough to get you up off your seat and jamming right along with him. You’ve gotta see him in action to believe it…

The current exhibition “Human Rights, Human Wrongs” at The Photographers’ Gallery in London raises the question of how Africa is portrayed in the West, minimising Africa to be seen as a land of African soldiers and tribal beasts

It is impossible not to have strong views when it comes to the debate on Africa’s rise: despite solid economic growth and progress in poverty alleviation, people’s views on the region’s outlook remain stubbornly polarised.

SA and Egypt rank as the continent’s most beloved, while Kenya and Nigeria comes in last… again.

The story behind the UK’s best hair colourist, Clayde Baumann. We asked him what inspired him, how he achieved the top accolade in his field, and what role did his life in South Africa played in him reaching such great heights.

Because this is exactly what Africa needs; the eviction of native tribes from their ancestral land, to make way for the rich and famous to come and hunt elephants in their own personal reserve.

So, apparently Africans haven’t a clue what Christmas is, can’t grow anything, don’t have water and have never seen snow. This is just some of the ridiculousness from the latest LiveAid concert.

South Africans have known Yvonne Chaka Chaka for almost 30 years, as the fantastic singer and incredible songwriter as well as a devastatingly attractive woman. But behind her famous persona are the humanitarian actions that inspire so many people around the world.

South Africa, Angola and Namibia have signed and adopted the Benguela Current Convention, which will see the three countries working together to use the Benguela Current marine ecosystem for various industries

Justina Mutale, African Woman of the Year 2012 and Founder & CEO of POSITIVE RUNWAY will today be part of a Panel Discussion on PRESS TV’S Africa Today Programme, which takes an analytical review of political, economic and social events in Africa.

African leaders and the United States have agreed to work together to build stronger trade ties between the two continents, South African President Jacob Zuma said at the close of the historic US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington on Wednesday.

Limited by geographic, cultural, or emotional distance, Africans often find it difficult to connect with one another.

Rolling tea estates, lesser-known national parks and one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes: Malawi could well be among Africa’s best kept secrets.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a report showing that South Africans consume higher levels of alcohol than other countries in Africa, but lower than those in Europe — or should we say Russia?

The first black African to power into space is gearing up to go from part-time DJ in a South African township to the second Afronaut – and all because of a body spray…

A total of 67 lives were taken in the attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall, but Kenyan defence forces claim to have killed or injured more than four times that number in an airborne raid on the training camps of the terrorist organisation behind the September mall killings

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) foundation Bunengi announced a partnership with CRDF Global on Friday aimed at increasing opportunities for African women to study and pursue careers in the important STEM sectors

The real success of the Africa’s shining new cities will be in demonstrating the value of high-density, sustainable patterns of land use, such that they are widely implemented in Africa’s burgeoning metropolises (Part II)

The pivot of global economic primacy towards the East is sometimes assumed by Africans to be someone else’s news – no more than a swapping of one set of export partners for another. But the rise of China, India and Brazil has immense consequences for Africa beyond actual trade with China itself

The real success of the Africa’s shining new cities will be in demonstrating the value of high-density, sustainable patterns of land use, such that they are widely implemented in Africa’s burgeoning metropolises

In this series, Gateway to Africa looks at the green shoots of innovation in South Africa’s built environment. We see proof everywhere that South Africa’s thought leaders are powering into the future by brand new ideas with global applications.

With only weeks to go until the terms of the new Agoa are hammered out in Ethiopia, President Obama has committed himself to a ‘seamless renewal’ of the treaty that has tripled Africa’s trade with the world’s largest economy.

The fall in telecoms costs has made South Africa more competitive as a BPO destination – but may have broader spinoffs outside this sector as well