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Liberia, which elected a new president last week, has among the highest percentage of out-of-school primary children in the world. In a...

1. Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration of African heritage and culture in the African-American community in the United States that is...

Accra, Ghana In the music video for his song Gold Coast, released last year, Ghanaian rapper ELi stands on Accra’s Labadi beach, as waves...

Mankosi is a remote rural community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. It is home to almost 6,000 people. The nearest city is...

African countries are forging ahead to complete negotiations for a continental free trade area between 55 countries by early next year....

Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science,...

South Africa has tripled its black science PhD graduates over the last decade, and since 2013 has been graduating more black PhDs than...

I’m only thirty, but I personally witnessed a time when China’s now car-clogged streets were full of bicycles instead. Such has been the...

Africa’s two largest economies are making a comeback: Nigeria’s economy is finally lifting its head after five consecutive quarters of...

He rode on Tito Puente’s float during the Puerto Rican Day Parade of 1969, when the mambo king was given a key to the city by Mayor John...

Last year, with just a few days to go before the first Art X Lagos fair, only 800 people had registered to attend what was to become West...

The death of four US soldiers in Niger last month put the spotlight on the west African country in a way that it has never experienced...

Nhlangano, Swaziland - Amitofo Care Centres, founded by Venerable Master Hui Li, a Buddhist monk from Taiwan, is taking in orphans and...

In the last five years, more than 2 million people have found holiday accommodation in Africa through Airbnb which now has over 100,000...

Africa is a farm lover’s dream: abundant uncultivated arable land, roughly over half the global total; tropical climates that permit long...

The population of Africa is increasing rapidly. From an estimated 140 million in 1900, it had grown to a billion by 2010. According to...

York, United Kingdom Fourteen years ago, Reuben Ekeme Inwe’s wife, Roselyn, had a dream. In it Inwe is preaching to a large crowd—not...

“Ha-lleluuuu-jah,” booms the distinctive voice of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, also known as the general overseer. The sound comes out through...

People who sell high-end coffee often promote their ties to the people who actually grow it. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s...

Smartphones and chatbots have made services from banking to transportation more accessible across Africa. Now, aid agencies are hoping...