A new study in npj Viruses warns that global trends like urbanization, travel, and mosquito spread are amplifying the risk of ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

In Accra, the price of a kilo of tomatoes is up nearly 40% compared to last year. Inflation may be easing, but at 22.4% in ...

The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...

Let us begin with an uncomfortable truth. Most African nation-states, Kenya included, are not truly sovereign. In fact, they ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unidentified species of mosquito along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania with potential ...

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Africa’s indigenous foods may hold the key to a healthier, more sustainable future – if we choose to value them.

Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...