This year brings a host of new exhibitions in and around the French capital, including a major Matisse retrospective, a ...

There are many ironies to Nigeria's intervention to foil a coup attempt in neighbouring Benin Republic. Alarm bells rang on ...

Isaline Attelly, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, had been living in Benin for nearly a year before she ...

About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

Ghana is in the middle of a heated debate over President Donald Trump's use of so-called third-country removals to hasten the ...

Researchers have conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date linking plasma proteins to genetic variation in ...

North Africa holds a distinctive place in the history of both the Mediterranean and African worlds. Commonly known as the ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

Yet despite its apparent absurdity, its journey is a reminder of how few modern boats ply African waterways, and how much richer the continent could be if there were more. Moving goods and people by ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

An impassioned dressing-room speech that was televised to the nation after one of the country's greatest sporting moments had a huge impact ...

The kola nut, once a sacred West African symbol of respect and unity, became part of Coca-Cola’s original formula. Its ...