Give an African feel to your workspace, office, or home the whole year round with this free, printable Adinkra symbols calendar for 2006 (in .pdf format, so there are no ... Read More

It'll take some time, but it's a fascinating tour ... browse through the 54-pages of historic postcards of Sierra Leone from the collection of Gary Schulze, who went to the ... Read More

Looking back over the developments on the continent during 2005, BBC News reports that the democratic advances made during the 1990s (including the ending of apartheid) seem to have stopped ... Read More

It's been 20 years since Dian Fossey was murdered in her home at the Karisoke Research Centre in Rwanda. Fossey established the centre in 1967 for gorilla conservation and research, ... Read More

You may not like his music, nor the man, but it's hard to doubt Geldof's motives. In a special report on Guardian Unlimited Geldof looks back at 2005 and what ... Read More

In contrast to the negative way people with dwarfism are often regarded in present-day society, dwarfs were treated without prejudice in Ancient Egypt. BBC News reports that a team from ... Read More

The Johannesburg-based Mail and Guardian newspaper has again published its annual report card grading how South Africa's political leaders have performed over the past year. Grades range from an A ... Read More

The government of Nigeria will start distributing free anti-retrovirals within the next fortnight, reports BBC News, with the aim of having some quarter of a million people receiving Aids drugs ... Read More

During most of the 20th century, South Africa was ruled by a system called Apartheid, which was based on the segregation of races. The term comes from an Afrikaans word ... Read More

Those people who participated in apartheid-era atrocities who did not seek amnesty should've been prosecuted, Nobel laureate and commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said in an interview on the ... Read More

Mention the name Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara and the country that comes to mind isn't generally the Congo in central Africa. But in 1965 Guevara went to Congo to ... Read More

About's Africa for Visitors Guide Anouk Zijlma has compiled a list of her Top 10 Favourite Books About Africa. Anouk says: "I try and read as much about Africa as ... Read More

An eight-metre wide, 60 km long, fissure that's developed in the Afar Desert in northeastern Ethiopia following an earthquake is fascinating scientists as it could be the start of a ... Read More

The humanitarian chief of the United Nations, Jan Egeland, has stated that Zimbabwe is "a meltdown, ... not just a crisis", reports BBC News. Life expectancy in the country is ... Read More

Was a prolonged drought in equatorial Africa some 70,000 years ago the reason humans moved from Africa onto other continents? This is the question raised by evidence found from drilling ... Read More

The fight against malaria has had a setback as resistance is developing to artemisinin drugs, reports the Guardian Unlimited. The drugs, made from plants growing in China, had been hailed ... Read More

3 – 9 December Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia wins the battle of Amba Alagi; Operation Compass, the British offensive against Italian forces in Egypt, begins; Ciskei and Bophuthatswana are granted ... Read More

South Africa, which has probably the most liberal constitution on the continent, has taken another significant step in terms of gay rights with its highest court , the Constitutional Court, ... Read More