In purely material terms, Africa is important to the U.S. because of its natural resources and its bright, entrepreneurial ...

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for ...

A new book taking deep dive into South Africa's correctional system and how it could be improved was launched in Johannesburg this week. South Africa has the largest prison population in Africa, and ...

African economies remain precarious and weak. Most African countries thrive on the primary sector, with raw products and produce from agriculture and ...

Analysis - During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were ...

Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those ...

Companies must be held accountable for their depredations before the next scramble for the continent under the guise of a ...

The Kenyan-American artist is taking over Rome’s Galleria Borghese in a show that is as personal as it is political ...

The noise around Malema’s ‘genocidal’ chant drowns out the real issue: unhealed colonial trauma and economic injustice.

Four years after its launch, the Just Energy Transition Partnership faces serious scrutiny. As South Africa grapples with its ...

Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing ...