There are plenty of them: 52.2 million people aged 18-35. That’s about 28% of Nigeria’s total population and more than...

Their offering – guns for hire – has remained essentially the same for decades. However, they’ve recently undergone an evolution...

In the central African country, football clubs have long been a way for the regime in power to build political...

The benefits of freer movement include trade, investment, cultural understanding and scientific cooperation. Along with several colleagues at the New...

Science’s growing understanding of chimpanzee culture, communication and emotion may have blurred the understanding of “distinctly human”, but our obligatory bipedalism has stood...

Once again, many pundits are wondering if an African team can win it all at this unconventionally scheduled World Cup (it’s usually held...

Russia’s Sputnik kicked off the space age in 1957. But Africa didn’t join until 1999. Why? Sputnik happened partly due to...

This omission was underscored again recently by an evolving master plan for South Africa’s oceans. The document is significant as it...

She went on to declare that she would devote her whole life “to the service of our great imperial family.”...

But the austerity and restraint of the 1940s was giving way to a more prosperous 1950s. It is perhaps no...