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

In truth, the world we know was built on Africa. To tell the story of modernity without Africa is to erase the foundations of global history. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, West African ...

Think of modern art and Picasso, O’Keeffe or Dali may first come to mind. But Nigerian artists have made key contributions throughout the 20th century — and their influence is being exhibited in the ...

African countries’ naval strength often gets less attention than their land and air forces, but the continent’s navies and maritime power ...

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A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola.

The Global Slavery Index, world's most comprehensive data set on slavery has revealed that 7 million people in Africa are ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

ON MARCH 18TH only four people turned up in person to the auction of modern and contemporary African art at Bonhams, London, a sale which marked the start of Africa art week. If you think that showed ...

STORY: At this church in Ivory Coast, some African Catholics are hoping that one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history. :: Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast Among them, Jean Luc ...