Long before European conquest, powerful African empires expanded, traded, and ruled across borders. This film uncovers how kingdoms like Mali, Ethiopia, and Benin built systems of influence history ...

The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, visiting Kilwa in 1331, described it as one of the most beautiful and well-built cities he had ever seen (Ibn Battuta, 1929). By the 1400s, when Vasco da Gama ...

Gibson, Desireé Markgraaff and Teboho Mahlatsi — the experienced trio behind Shaka iLembe production house Bomb! Productions ...

Ghana can move beyond being a technology consumer by combining industrial capacity with policy influence and actively shaping ...

The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...

Oklahoma that featured a flood of red, indicating communism, pouring over the North Pole, reaching the northern border of the ...

Kwadwo Safo Jnr, the CEO of Kantanka Automobiles, addressed the looming succession crisis involving him and his sister, Adwoa ...

African leaders attending the UN General Assembly are advocating for a greater global role for the continent, Security Council reforms and Palestinian statehood. Many African leaders attending the UN ...

To understand the power of Nigerian literature, one must first grasp the nation's tumultuous, vibrant reality. Nigeria is a country ...

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

The ancestors are speaking, and this time, they are not whispering. They are roaring through the corridors of power, rattling ...

Artworks at the Kalahari Resorts & Conventions don’t just look African. They are African. Hand picked by owners Todd and Shari Nelson–and family–on purchasing trips to the continent. ByChadd Scott, ...