At least 10 people were killed by an explosion at a soccer stadium in Somalia\'s capital Mogadishu w...

The UK bank\'s long-awaited announcement is a major vote of confidence in the South African economy...

Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world. What are be...

The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country\'s major et...

The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country\'s major et...

The modern economy of Algeria has taken an upward turn. Traditionally it depended primarily on oil a...

First inhabited by pygmies, present-day Congo was later settled by Bantu groups that also occupy par...

From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafour...

The earliest inhabitants of present-day Cameroon were probably the Bakas (Pygmies). They still inhab...

Present-day Senegal became in the fourteenth century part of Mali: it forms the centre of this count...

Malawi is a small landlocked country in Africa, south of the Equator between latitude 9 degrees 45\'...

The colonial history of Kenya dates from the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the European powers fir...

Niger\'s colonial history and development parallels that of other French West African territories. F...

Sudan was a collection of small, independent kingdoms and principalities from the beginning of the C...

When Portuguese explorers reached Mozambique in 1498, Arab-trading settlements had existed along the...

Thousands of slaves were returned to or liberated in Freetown. Most chose to remain in Sierra Leone.

Egyptian written history begins around 3300 BC. This was when the Egyptians finally had enough symbo...

Colonial economic development did not translate into social development for native Angolans. The Por...

Chad has a long and rich history. The cliff paintings in Borkou and Ennedi depict elephants, rhinoce...

At independence, Zambia faced major challenges. Domestically, there were few trained and educated Za...

When Arab traders moved inland from their enclaves along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa and r...

In 1934, Italy adopted the name \"Libya\" as the official name of the colony which consisted of the...

Mandela\'s administration began to reintroduce South Africa into the global economy by implementing...

The rich heritage of traditional music present in Zimbabwe since its earliest times survived with di...

Ghana was the first African country south of the Sahara to achieve independence. This was in 1957. T...

Tunisia is a Muslim Arab country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast. It is the easter...

In the late 15th century Portuguese navigators became the first Europeans to visit Nigeria. They soo...

Gabon is located in Central Africa. It borders Cameroon to the north, Congo to the east and south, A...

Today one can still see many reminders of the German period. Namibia has a daily German newspaper an...

Malians express great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancien...