Nick Dutton is Co-Founder and CEO of Mami Wata, a premium African surf brand based out of Cape Town. Launched in April 2017, the brand is sold globally. Prior to this, Dutton worked in London at ...

In Benin, women are the backbone of voodoo celebrations, integral both on the front lines and behind the scenes. Their roles in organising rituals, preserving sacred knowledge, and maintaining ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

Although popular with tourists from neighbouring South Africa, British travellers have regarded Mozambique as a left-field holiday option for many years. Terrorist activity in the north of the ...

Wang’s visits to Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria set the tone for key African aspirations for relations with China in 2025. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its ...

2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned. Ethiopia struggled to contain insurgencies in Tigray, Amhara and Oromia, and conflict continued in ...

University of Waikato provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...

Raleigh icon Mami Nora’s will move from its longtime home on Wake Forest Avenue to the new Raleigh Iron Works district Salvage Yard. Alex Tricoli atricoli@newsobserver.com A beloved name in ...

New avenues for China's flagging export economy Wang's decision to visit Africa, and specifically the Republic of Congo, is strategically important.The country recently became co-chair of the ...