The Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls on 23 December to elect a successor to incumbent president Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since January 2001 when he inherited the position from his assassinated father
Ramón Nse Esono Ebale draws out of a desire to create a world that is different from the one he can see with his eyes. It was that desire that led to his arrest and detention in September 2017.
“The question is now, under the change of government, would I be welcome? I’m still being outspoken about what I think.”
On 3 March in Belfort, France, Burkinabe rapper and activist Smockey began a two-month long European tour, despite having his studio destroyed twice in recent years
Index on Censorship welcomes the news that charges against cartoonist Nsé Ramón Esono Ebalé have been dropped.
The trial of an artist on dubious counterfeiting charges
Charles Atangana knows as well as anyone the challenges of being a journalist in Cameroon.
Index on Censorship has joined with 18 other parties to call on the president of Equatorial Guinea to release cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé.
Professor David Benatar shares his point of view on the University of Cape Town’s academic freedom
The Angolan government should immediately drop all charges against journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, winner of Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Award and Fellowship in 2015.
Freedom of expression in Africa. Index on Censorship covers free speech, freedom of religion, artistic freedom on the continent of Africa.