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

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

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th cent ...

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 ...

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 ...

LISTEN UP Art Songs for the Heart The term “art song” can seem vaguely daunting, suggesting that all those other songs you like aren’t sufficiently artful somehow. In fact, they’re a wonderful way to ...

Algeria must make more efforts to lift its demands and hold France accountable, under the report prepared by three ...

One common condition required the enslaved person to live with their master until the master's death—meaning they only truly ...

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Proverbs 6:6 Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who has died at age 92, is most famous for his contributions to evolutionary ...

From luxury heritage routes to routine service passing through extraordinary scenery, here are 19 of our favorite rail ...

A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military force ...

The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world ...