In 1986, Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist Wole Soyinka made history as the first African laureate to receive the Nobel ...

Thandiswa Mazwai has lived the modern history of African music. In the early '90s, when she was still a teenager, she pioneered the emerging kwaito sound in South Africa, first with ... and how they ...

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Kenya’s Eldoret-Iten Water Fund. Part 2 is available here. When farmers in the ...

T o fly from the south to the north of Nigeria takes only a couple of hours. Yet in one way, it is like going back in time.

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

There’s a compelling reason to make a day return trip to Sekondi-Takoradi nowadays. Though much of the day is spent driving getting there, get excited, it is still worth the venture! Once a thriving ...

Standing below a stump of splintered limbs, I looked up at a grey sky once filled with flourishing boughs. Torn down by a ...

Modern fences are often so thoroughly impenetrable, they can slice up already-scarce habitats and restrict wildlife to ...

In the end, the researchers were able to use the vast web of Android phones to map out the ionosphere with a level of ...

Since leaving her senior post in the US government, the former Trump official has spent months traveling across Africa, from ...

She gives us each a simple form to fill out while she outlines the rules, saying visitors must always be accompanied and ...