The Festival of Arts and Culture tagged FESTAC ’77 brought together thousands of participants from across Africa and the ...

David von Rosen lived in the US, Germany, Australia, and beyond as he built the career that would lead him to becoming a ...

Beyond the river walk, downtown Wisconsin Dells is a destination for shops, restaurants, arcades and museums. Many water ...

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa into two—and creating a new ocean ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique and public engagement. From the Dreyfus Affair (a political scandal ...

The bricks are local, the open-air ventilation is abundant, and a single towering baobab unites it all: architect Francis Kere’s new building in Dakar is simultaneously sustainable and distinctly ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

The Church of Our Lady of Muxima was built by Portuguese colonizers in Angola at the end of the 16th century as part of a fortress complex and became a hub in the slave trade. It remains a reminder of ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. This “necking” process marks an advanced ...

In the past five years, we have seen a steady increase in absolute numbers of out-of-school children and adolescents from 95 ...

The government of Togo has formally petitioned the United Nations to adopt a world map that accurately reflects Africa’s true land area. Togo officials argue that the widely used projections are ...