The greatest impact of the GNU so far has been the sense of optimism it has ignited in the people of South Africa. This is gold: economic growth, job creation and poverty alleviation cannot happen ...

Chiefs’ Nabi gears up for his first Soweto Derby, calling it Africa’s biggest rivalry as the stage is set for a clash against Pirates.

The Kenya lesson in settler colonialism deeply impacted British leaders but proved one that Israeli leaders refused to learn from. Given the particular histories of Zionism and European Jews, most ...

The deployment of South African troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission was initially framed as a commitment to regional ...

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human migration history.

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Bethwel Ogot, a prominent Kenyan historian and scholar, has died at the age of 95. His death was confirmed by Siaya Governor ...

The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief is in danger of shuttering. The decision could kill hundreds of thousands of people and kickstart an epidemic.

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes from several African sites. The paper, titled "Expanding the human ...

Congo’s leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels attempting to seize more territory in the country’s conflict-battered east.