Africa rsquo;s railway map tells a powerful but uncomfortable story . Most of the continent rsquo;s rail lines run from the ...

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 ...

Drawing a balance sheet of post-colonial rule is indispensable. Clarifying which leaderships and programmes failed, why they ...

William Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ makes a powerful case against mainstream mapmaking’s creation of an orderly, objective ...

In countries such as South Sudan, the great herds have all but disappeared. But further south, conservation success mean increasing human-wildlife conflict ...

On the surface, it’s just an old map—but every border tells a deeper story. This 1935 view of Africa offers a striking look into colonial power and how it shaped the continent ...

Namibia’s narrow northeastern corridor, known as the Caprivi Strip, is one of the most unusual borders on the continent. This ...

The contemporary political landscape has witnessed the emergence of Somaliland as a robust de facto state a "ghost in the ...

Legal scholars such as Iqbal Jhazbhay and Michael Walls have argued that Somaliland’s case is unique: it is not a ...

Three decades after his death, François Mitterrand remains a defining yet contested figure in French politics. His biographer ...

Analysis - Nigeria has endured decades of violent insurgencies and ranks 6th on the 2025 Global Terrorism Index. Numerous people have been killed and millions displaced. The number of casualties from ...

Pangolins, the jungle’s elusive specialists, survive almost entirely on ants and termites. Their unique diet, armour and ...