Beijing has long used infrastructure development as a means of building influence in Africa. Now, it’s using media as well.

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

The ebbs and flows between African and other cultures are intertwined. These are conduits for the world defying their ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

For decades, DRC, a Central African nation of more than 100 million people, has grappled with bloody militia violence, including ethnic and resource-driven armed rebellion by M23 and dozens of ...

OMCT Policy paper As the African Union convenes its 2025 Summit under the theme " Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations ,"the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) ...

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African ...

Explore the contentious debate surrounding racial justice in South Africa, where historical oppression and contemporary land ...