Wole Soyinka and Late President Kwame Nkruma of Ghana In Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilizations occurred in a vac­uum.

Sand divination is an ancient African practice dating back thousands of years. It is inextricably linked to African ...

Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture.

As 2025 dawns, African nations are looking out onto an uncertain global political landscape. Russia's grinding war in Ukraine still has no end in sight, the United States is about to swear in an ...

The year 2025 promises to be a thrilling period for African football as CAF organizes a series of competitions and African teams take part in major FIFA tournaments. From the prestigious TotalEnergies ...

It is the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara said the pullout would begin in January. France has had as many as ...

Election-rigging claims are nothing new in the southeast African nation, where the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front, known by its Portuguese acronym Frelimo, has been in power since independence ...

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French troops helped protect civilians during the civil war in Ivory Coast from 2002-07 Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing ...

An artificial rendering of the Albertine Rift, which forms the western branch of the East African Rift. Credit: Christoph Hormann / CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers have discovered a major shift happening in ...

South Africa tailenders Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen have hung in against relentless fast bowler Mohammad Abbas for a tense two-wicket win in the first Test in Centurion to seal the Proteas’ p ...