In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would...

“A village boy has become the president of Kenya,” William Ruto proclaimed during his September 13 victory speech. A crowd of tens of...

On December 26, 1945, France ratified the Bretton Woods agreement. With that act, the French created the “franc of the French Colonies of...

The largest challenge for the United States to overcome in the international sphere is not the lack of influence, but rather the...

In December 2015, the German newspaper Die Zeit published a feature story titled “One man picks against Europe.” Kojo Ebeneku, the tragic...

While the debate over the existence of global warming continues to draw attention, the worst-case scenarios of climate change are already...

Recently, the Red Sea has witnessed everything but an exodus of interest from regional and global actors. With a significant volume of...

The landscape of technological innovation in sub-Saharan Africa has been aptly dubbed the “Silicon Savannah.” The IT sector in the region...

Around the world today, 217 million individuals suffer from untreated but correctable visual impairment. Those in the more developed...

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

“Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists, and for the artists,” proclaims Christine Macel, curator of the...

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

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

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...

In December of last year, two boats chartered by the environmental vigilante group Sea Shepherd, the Bob Barker and the Sam Simon,...

On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako,...

Morocco’s first Ikea was scheduled for a grand opening in Mohammedia, north of Casablanca, on September 29. When the doors of the...

Knowledge is power, and colonial elites knew it better than anyone. In particular, they knew how education can be used to empower some...

In 2009, a bill was introduced in the Ugandan parliament that called for the arrest of LGTBQ Ugandans and specifically targeted...

“Homosexuality is incompatible with scripture,” asserted Stanley Ntagali, the archbishop of Uganda, in response to accusations by British...