When communities are constantly on the move, they lose political power. In Senegal, Awa Sow has radical ideas to change all ...

The Kenyan writer challenged Western influence on African culture and history, highlighting heritage and resilience ...

Unlike the African misrulers, the Chinese leadership embraced the country’s culture and history; it has not tried to run away ...

The Nigerian music world is mourning the loss of one of its greatest folklorists and Highlife icons, Chief Mike Ejeagha, who ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

Across the continent, thousands of Fulani people are holding fast to their ancient customs—while reshaping their traditions ...

Long before pyramids or empires, this fierce little hunter crept into human camps - and changed history. We track the African wildcat, the original feline that chose to tame us rather than the other ...

No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

On the evening of May 9, 2019, conservationist and teacher Itakwu Innocent narrowly survived an assassination attempt outside ...

The Ugandan-born priest, who immigrated in 2007, has administered the diocese since Bishop Mario Dorsonville died in 2024.

A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...