Compounding issues, many African countries pay four times more interest on their debt than high-income nations despite often ...

Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near ...

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...

With Algeria’s recent purchase of Russian Su-35 fighter jets, it seems almost certain that Morocco will buy American F-35s.

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.

The anniversary of the Manchester Congress calls for reflection on its enduring significance and the meaning of Pan-Africanism in today's world, a time when the struggles for sovereignty, unity, and ...

For now, Tate has given Nigeria’s cultural moment a museum-scale frame — and committed to keeping part of that story on the walls for decades. If the promise of Zaria and the reinventions of Nsukka ...

Now this cultural “renaissance” is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Modern, which brings together some 250 pieces – ...

With rising exports estimated at $27 billion and several planned investment projects across the continent, Russia has ...

Newsweek takes a deeper look at the more than two-year Sudan war, a conflict that the UN has called one of the world’s worst ...