Africa has around 60 to 80 active separatist movements, each fighting for autonomy or full independence inside existing countries. Many are driven by ethnic identity, resource control, political ...

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

Poems on African and African Diasporic MigrationEdited by Nandi Jola and Omobola Osamor, CivicLeicester, £9.99AT this time of anti-immigrant rhetoric and measures of the Western right, from Trump’s ...

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 ...

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

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

A Paris exhibition is looking at how French anthropologists collected African heritage in the European colonial period, writes David Tresilian Modelled according to its curators on a police enquiry in ...

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

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

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 ...