In this changed cultural preference, the cultural gap between Southerners and Northerners in Nigeria began to close. Northerners never abandoned their babanriga for western suits and in most cases ...

Geographical name changes can be a result of a shift in regimes, indigenous movements, decolonisation, or political factors.

The Davis Friends Meeting will show the film “SoundTrack to a Coup d’Etat” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 at the Meetinghouse at ...

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The epic of Sunjata Keita has become heritage of the entire African continent ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa and German colonial rule in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died aged 95.

Malabo, the island capital of Equatorial Guinea, sits closer to Cameroon than its own mainland, reflecting a complex colonial ...

Donald Trump's proposal to "take over" Gaza and relocate its population has raised concerns about potential regional ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson traveled to the port city of Dakhla, on the West African coast, to launch his budget airline’s ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...