The Guardian

• Walton Dangarembizi obituary
  My father, Walton (Wala) Dangarembizi, who has died aged 66 from complications related to diabetes, was an influential promoter of African music in the UK. He began by working on London sound systems in the 1970s before graduating to running a club at the Africa Centre and then providing musicians for major festivals and events, […]
• ‘Change will come’: Africa’s ‘dinosaur’ leaders win polls, but their young challengers won’t fade away
  Last week’s win for the ruling party in Nigeria is a familiar result across the continent, but opposition movements won’t stop gearing up for powerA mile or so from the crashing breakers of the Atlantic, in one of the most affluent parts of Lagos, hushed visitors admire the paintings and prints on the walls of […]
• Peter Mundy obituary
  As a child growing up on the outskirts of war-ravaged London, my friend Peter Mundy, who has died aged 81, would scramble across the rubble, scavenging anything of interest and imagining himself as a great vulture soaring over the vast African plains. His childhood fantasy led him to Africa in the early 1970s, and that […]
• Rainbow plates: the chefs reawakening Africa’s taste for vegan food
  Can innovative cooks and entrepreneurs take the continent back to its plant-based roots? We’ve included chef Marie Kacouchia’s recipe for Senegalese cauliflower yassa so you can judge for yourselfWhen Nicola Kagoro returned to Zimbabwe after a five-year stint as executive chef at one of Cape Town’s premier vegan restaurants, her vision had been to take […]
• Weather tracker: Cyclone Freddy brings torrential rain to parts of Africa
  Downpours lash Mozambique and Zimbabwe – meanwhile, unseasonably high and low temperatures hit east and west USThe remnants of Tropical Cyclone Freddy continue to wreak havoc in parts of south-east Africa. Originally forming as a disturbance embedded within a monsoon trough on 5 February, the system continues to bring torrential rain. However, it is no […]