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

Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

Italy’s stance on its historical atrocities against Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia contradicts principles in its Mattei Plan for Africa.

Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...

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

Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during ...

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 ...

By Nigel Westmaas “Nah tek yuh mattie eye fuh see.” - Guyanese proverb (“Don’t rely on someone else’s view, see for yourself.

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

“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 ...