Africa has 38 coastal and island nations. Their maritime industries – including energy, tourism, maritime transport, shipping and fishing – play a crucial role in developing these nations. Key to ...

Across Africa, there is a deep, justified and often emotional conversation about history. Colonialism. Exploitation. Economic ...

African nations are intensifying efforts to secure reparations for the colonial-era crimes that caused widespread devastation across the continent and beyond. On Nov. 30, African diplomats and leaders ...

For too long, African borders have functioned less as lines of cooperation than as instruments of separation, inherited from ...

Congolese people carry their belongings as they flee from their villages around Sake, in Masisi territory, following clashes ...

IN FEBRUARY 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US president George W Bush stood before a small gathering of ...

Contrary to the widespread belief that pre-colonial Africa was entirely without borders, African kingdoms including the Kingdom of Rwanda had clearly defined territorial boundaries. Rwanda, in ...

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by ...