From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

This article uncovers how colonial borders continue to influence governance, ethnic relations, and economic development, ...

Mamadou Diouf, historian and president of the committee tasked with investigating the killing by France of African ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat has received critical success through it’s focus on an international incident, a relationship between developing countries in a ...

Bula Matari and the contemporary African crisis -- On the state -- The nature and genesis of the colonial state -- Constructing Bula Matari -- The colonial state institutionalized -- Toward African ...

The Pan-African movement was disrupted by world events in the 1930s and 1940s and did not hold a congress again until after ...

Tanzania’s inclusion in a U.S. visa bond program and repeated security warnings expose how modern diplomacy can quietly ...

Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during colonial rule.

Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it ...

A man wearing a face mask walks through Kibera, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. (Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images via AP Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay ...

Across the African continent, from Madagascar to Morocco, young people known as Generation Z, are taking to the streets demanding social justice, and their voices to be heard.