Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has an ambitious vision for the continent’s most populous nation, but hurdles stand in his way.

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Understanding female genital mutilation’s contested origins is critical to dismantling its persistence across parts of Africa today.

This interactive timeline of the war in Ukraine shows major attacks, key moments and how the battle lines have shifted in the four years since Russia's all-out invasion.

Dongkyung "DK" Shin will discuss her research, which examines how Britain reinvented the governance of its empire through universities during the decades of decolonization. Focusing on the ...

António de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo regime reshaped Portugal after 1933, combining corporatism, nationalism, and Catholic values. Though neutral during World War II, Portugal entered the Cold ...

Look at a map. Port Louis, Mauritius’ capital, is roughly 1,300 miles from the Chagos Islands; Malé in the Maldives is only 300 miles away. The Maldives also straddles the same oceanic ridge that runs ...

Marco Rubio’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference (telling Europeans that the US and Europe “belong together”) ...

Deep in South Africa’s wine country, near the town of Robertson, past rows of tin shacks and up a gravel road where barefoot ...

More than 60 years after the UN launched its formal decolonization drive, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged ...

“You can probably get a sense of which films in this book I really love by the use of language,” Ashley Clark, Curatorial Director at Criterion, says of The World of Black Film, the expansive book ...

This video breaks down a rare 1866 map of Africa created just before the Scramble for the continent began. It reveals forgotten kingdoms, trade networks, and cultural boundaries that no longer exist ...