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Indigenous peoples who are nonparticipants in and nonbeneficiaries of the modern African life (whether by choice or by being marginalized by more a dominant culture) are in a vulnerable position ... Read More

Speaking at the premiere of the movie Shooting Dogs, Rwandan President Paul Kagame is quoted by CNN as saying it was "going to be a continued part of our memory ... Read More

There's a new book fair on the African calendar, the Cape Town Book Fair, which will highlight what's being written and published across the continent. It's being held in association ... Read More

Are South Africa's capitalists behaving like imperialists in their economic activities across Africa? A news report on Fin24.com says: "South African business is cutting a swathe of takeovers through Africa that ... Read More

Following his conviction in the 1963 Treason Trial Nelson Mandela was transferred to the jail on Robben Island. He was classified as a Group D prisoner, which meant he could ... Read More

If you're in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya, or Egypt next Wednesday, 29 March, you'll experience a total solar eclipse. The longest eclipse will be encountered in Libya, ... Read More

The new tomb found in the Valley of the Kings last month is not a tomb after all, but rather an embalmer's workshop where Ancient Egyptians mummified pharaohs, which explains ... Read More

New archaeological evidence has been unearthed showing that some 4,000 years ago Egyptians were sailing the seas. According to the report on National Geographic, wooden planks, ropes, and cargo boxes ... Read More

Standing proudly on a small koppie at the bottom of the African continent since 1848, overlooking the Indian and Atlantic oceans, the L’Agulhas Lighthouse was modelled on the design ... Read More

Since the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994, a number of changes have been made to geographical names in the country. It can get a bit confusing, as ... Read More

Year-on-year inflation in Zimbabwe has hit a new record high -- this time a staggering 782 per cent. A new 50,000 Zimbabwe dollar bill was introduced at the beginning of ... Read More

A double-ringed impact crater some 19 miles (31 kilometers) in diameter has been found by researchers from Boston University in the Sahara. Drs Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim made the ... Read More

Quite how old the rock art that is found across Southern Africa is, is hard to determine because the pigments used contain little organic material that can be dated. The ... Read More

Take a look at this collection of photographs of various African leaders including Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman elected as president of an African nation, and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ... Read More

The film Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood, has won best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars. It's only the second time a South African film has been nominated for ... Read More

Previously known as the British colony of Gold Coast, with the addition of the UN Trust territory British Togoland (which had been part of the larger German colony of Togoland), ... Read More

The Islamic faith and Muslims have played a crucial role in the development of Africa, not only in North Africa and West Africa where it is still the dominant religion, ... Read More

The Kingdom of Morocco achieved independence from being a French Protectorate (part of France's trans-Saharan empire) on 2 March 1956, although additional territories held by Spain were joined shortly afterwards ... Read More