June 30 marked the celebration of Africa Scientific Renaissance Day (ASRD). This date was established in 1987 in Addis Ababa, ...

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has ...

A wave of youth-led protests has been sweeping Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, ushering in a new era of political struggle. We’re ...

African Ancestry co-founder Dr. Gina Paige helps Black people connect to their personal history one swab at a time.

Ancient human genomes reconstructed from remains at a southern African rock shelter show remarkable genetic continuity over ...

This commentary is the first installment of a new column from the Africa Program called the Dizolele Brief, which connects the dots between seemingly disparate events and developments in Africa. A ...

Jerusalem was surrendered to the Crusaders by al-Kamil in a peace treaty in 1229 but was recaptured by the Khawarizmians in ...

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are ...

NPR's Africa correspondent takes us to one of the few remaining hospitals, near the Sudanese capital.

But gas is not as clean as alternative renewable energy sources. I head the Africa Programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. I've researched law, politics and ...

But gas is not as clean as alternative renewable energy sources. I head the Africa Programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. I’ve researched law, politics and ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...