The Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Mr Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile, will on Tuesday, 5 May 2026, deliver the keynote address at the celebration of African World ...

African world heritage constitutes an essential part of human history. Every 5 May, African World Heritage Day (AWHD) ...

Focusing on colonial narratives and the efforts of African intellectuals to refute them, Mamadou Diouf considers nationalist, Afrocentric, subaltern (or postcolonial), and other prominent efforts to ...

Celebrated every year on 5 May, African World Heritage Day was proclaimed in 2015 by the UNESCO General Conference to highlight the exceptional richness of the cultural and natural heritage on the ...

The confederation’s silence on US travel bans and visa restrictions for African fans is shameful.

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

This Sunday marks the kickoff of the eighth matchday of the African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. All matches will be played from September 7 to 9, 2025. The battle for Africa's spots ...

At the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum, a dedicated session focused on Mission 300—a platform to provide electricity to 300 million people in Africa by 2030. The session brought together African ...

A decade ago Jua Power, a family-owned solar-energy firm, had little reason to leave China in search of customers. With the ...

For decades, Africa lived on the edges of footballing maps, faintly sketched, but it's a paradigm that has shifted with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and 10 confirmed qualifiers for the grandest show on ...