Foreign governments and corporations are investing heavily—not out of goodwill, but because they understand Africa’s value.

In her testimony, Nora related that she gave birth to a female child in March 1953, revealing that this was an illegitimate child and that the father was an Indian male. Hlengwa was present at the ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin described herself as an African woman “inflamed by injustice” on a mission to free her continent from colonial rule. She was ...

Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress ...

What is the green in the green transition? Between September 4 and 6, 2023, the first Africa Climate Summit was held in ...

Leopards — solitary, enigmatic, nocturnal predators with golden fur splashed with dark rosette spots — have the widest range ...

7. Witchcraft suppression acts in Zambia and Zimbabwe Colonial regimes criminalised indigenous belief systems under “witchcraft” laws, branding African spiritual practices as “sorcery”. These statutes ...

In Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Mahmood Mamdani describes how colonial education in Africa created a bifurcated society where a small Western-educated ...

But his country, like the rest of East Africa, has struggled to do just that. On February 27, for instance, the High Court in Kampala heard the latest attempt: petitioners wanted all colonial-era ...

THE annexation of Ethiopia has presented the Italian Government with a tremendous problem in colonial administration. No other area in Africa of equal size offers such variety of topography, climate, ...

The government has renewed plans for a national dress code, which will largely be decided by the local textile industry and designers. In its quest, the government through the State Department for ...