Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an ...

Today, she is widely seen as a Black feminist icon who reigned in Africa. In fact, there’s no archaeological evidence to show she ever lived. The texts that mention her — whose standards for ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...