For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat opens with footage of a Max Roach drum solo, cut with intertitles of his wife, the singer, actress and activist Abbey Lincoln, announcing The Cultural Association of Women ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

The roots of Congo’s fragility run deep. It was left with weak institutions and very little development after decades of Belgian colonialism. Then, after independence, the United States and ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

The continent must unite to shape its economic future and to end its dependence on Western financial institutions Read Full ...