An American recalls his childhood fear of South African gospel music in a viral TikTok, resonating with many who share similar memories and experiences.

South Africa’s president has authorized a yearlong deployment by the army to fight crime in some of the country’s ...

Using the word “tribe” to describe societies in Africa can oversimplify the continent’s immense cultural, linguistic, and ...

The African Travel & Tourism Association (ATTA) has published its 2026 Travel Trends report which reveals that cultural immersion, heritage storytelling, conservation-led experiences and slow, more ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa's top regional body opened its annual summit on Saturday in Ethiopia to discuss the future of the continent of some 1.4 billion people, as the organization faces ...

As 2026 begins, competition over critical minerals has become a defining feature of global geopolitics. Last month, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sent Washington a shortlist of state-owned ...

Nadine Biehler works at SWP for the research project "Strategic Refugee and Migration Policy", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Emma Landmesser ...

YOU WOULD not expect a small market on the edge of the Sahel to sell much seafood. But Paga, a town in northern Ghana near the border with Burkina Faso, has plenty. Adjoa al-Hassan sources dried fish ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is expected to continue his iron-fist rule; Benin’s Patrice Talon will likely step down. As discontent towards the ‘old’ rulers is rising in Africa, will the new generation be ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that officials from South Africa would not be invited to next year's summit of leading rich and developing nations in Miami, just days after this year's meeting ...