In his citation during the African Studies Association Distinguished Africanist Award presentation to Bethwell Allan Ogot in Houston, USA, in 2001, renowned Africanist David Cohen said of Ogot: “I ...

Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa’s new book, translated from French to English by Emma Ramadan, ‘Living in Your Light’, goes straight to the source of Taia’s life: his late mother, M’Barka Allali Taïa.

Five decades after acquiring independence, Kenya continued to struggle under an excruciating dissonance inflicted by the unsettling sense of hollow sovereignty and dubious freedom. Far from being the ...

War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exploded into global headlines once again after Rwanda-backed rebels captured ...

France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

None of the men I saw at the Gaîté Lyrique looked like he was under 18 years of age. Their passports are probably at the ...