While provision of welfare services, such as healthcare, is one of a government’s foremost responsibilities to its citizens, it can, at...

As violence continues to plague war-torn South Sudan, even after efforts at ceasefires, refugees continue to pour out of the world’s...

Against the advice of allied parties, trade unions, business leaders, investors, and various political leaders, President Jacob Zuma...

From 2006 to 2016, deployments of US Special Operations Command units to Africa climbed by a staggering 1600 percent. This militarization...

The ubiquity of American products abroad is hardly surprising. From Ray Bans to Nikes to Chevys, the marketplace today is truly global...

Home to impressive monuments such as Timbuktu and Djenné, the Sahel Region, an eco-climate zone that encompasses nations such as Sudan,...

Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of...

President Yahya Jammeh told Gambia he would rule for a billion years. But on December 1, 2016, the Gambian people decided otherwise. In a...

Marching in platoons and consuming all in its path, the formidable fall armyworm decimates crops in the Americas and Southern Africa each...

With the rapid rise of garment and textile manufacturing in many Asian countries, namely China and India, Africa has found itself losing...

The international news circuit, in its coverage of the refugee crisis, has consistently focused on the burden faced by southern European...

In July 2012, Nigerian authorities certified the destruction of one of Lagos’ prominent slums, Makoko, otherwise known as the “Venice of...

Dr. Joyce Banda served as the first female president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and founded the People’s Party in 2011. Prior to serving...

Rwanda has earned itself a special nickname: “the Switzerland of Africa.” Just like in Switzerland, everything seems to run abnormally...

Patricide: A Political Backstory South African president Jacob Zuma once decreed that the African National Congress (ANC) would remain...

For the past few years, acts of violence by the Islamic fundamentalist sect Boko Haram have been the predominate focus of American media...

On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t,...

Situated 260 miles south of Agadir, one of Morocco’s serene beach town, is the starting point of the Moroccan Wall, a sand barrier...

Even though Liberia saw its first case of Ebola in three months in early April, the danger of the epidemic that claimed around 11,000...

Nigeria has a people problem. With a population of 167 million and one of the highest fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa, the country...