Guest Column - A new scramble for Africa is underway. It is not marked by warships or colonial flags, but by battery supply chains, green transition targets, and high-level trade delegations. The race ...

Maps are never neutral, and this one proves it. This video examines a 1935 map of Africa and what it reveals about borders, ...

The liberalisation loosens the colonial grip on African life. It allows states to maintain sovereignty while refusing to let colonial lines dictate connectivity ...

This video breaks down a rare 1866 map of Africa created just before the Scramble for the continent began. It reveals forgotten kingdoms, trade networks, and cultural boundaries that no longer exist ...

How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group ...

Samia Suluhu Hassan has caused Tanzania’s most dangerous crisis since independence ...

Inland water transport has played a documented and significant role in African economic and social history. Long before colonial railways and paved roads, major African river systems, including the ...

The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...

Flags are more than just cloth waving in the breeze, they are a symbol of identity, history, struggle, culture, and hope. Most country flags are designed with common elements such as rectangular ...

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 ...

What may be the most significant expansion in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church is serving as a powerful new tool for the Kremlin.

What’s more than critical? A thesaurus would say ‘dire’ or ‘imperative’, but Africa needs something stronger to capitalise on ...