The end of another week – one which has been a bit of a shitshow. The good news is we’re not in a correction in the Oxford ...

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

Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Dream Count has landed. It's been over a decade since Adichie published her previous novel, Americanah, following on global ...

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

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms ...

More than 50 people have died from unidentified illnesses in north-western Congo, in the last five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks occurred in two ...

What's the fighting in DR Congo all about? Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo In a statement, Nangaa said that two people had been apprehended in connection with the attack ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who have made lightning advances in eastern Congo this ...