Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s ...

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

On November 3, 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his first speech at the United Nations, outlining India’s independent foreign policy and vision for global peace. The day also saw milestones — Panama’s ...

An exhibition is celebrating 80 years since African leaders gathered in Manchester for the Pan-African Congress. | ITV News ...

For the first time, an event dedicated to Belgian colonialism is being held in Baku, bringing together representatives, ...

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent’s principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this new book, historian Malyn Newitt traces the ...

Lines drawn by European powers with little regard for geography, culture, or history left Africa divided and unstable. These borders continue to fuel tension, conflict, and fragmentation across the ...

The Pan-African movement was disrupted by world events in the 1930s and 1940s and did not hold a congress again until after the end of World War Two. Its leading figures were keen to get things going ...

“At the beginning, I thought we were digging a deep hole for ourselves, as people feel so passionately about this character,” says Angus Gibson, the director and co-creator of South Africa’s ...

Senegal unveiled Thursday a long-awaited report on the 1944 Thiaroye massacre, when French colonial troops killed African soldiers demanding back pay after fighting in World War II. The findings, ...