From Nigeria to Senegal and everywhere in between, West Africa is home to a rich culinary culture that transcends national ...

In the city, I discovered how pre-colonial traditions, including my own Yoruba heritage, thrive and connect the Black ...

Your hair, your aesthetic, your makeup — it’s armor. It is a weapon. Tying that to the history of braids, it's widely known ...

It is now almost a century and a half that the Yoruba civil war ended ... had become the most dominant military might in Sub-sahara Africa, taking over territories and seizing swath of land.

If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left ...

The echoes of the separation of the Yoruba Nation from Nigeria, again, reverberated as the visible proponent of the call, Professor Adebanji Akintoye, for the umpteenth time requested the exit of ...

The global average birth rate for twins is around 12 per 1,000 births, but in Igbo-Ora, it is closer to 50 per 1,000.

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

Russia is offering governments in Africa a "regime survival package" in exchange for access to strategically important natural resources, a major new report has found. Internal Russian government ...

This commentary is the first installment of a new column from the Africa Program called the Dizolele Brief, which connects the dots between seemingly disparate events and developments in Africa. A ...

NPR's Africa correspondent takes us to one of the few remaining hospitals, near the Sudanese capital.

The UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future, convened 30 September - 2 October 2024, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity in ...