What is it that makes a piece of African art authentic, fake, or simply commercial, made-for-tourists art? An exhibition (on until 3 June 2007) at the Mull and Palmer Galleries, ... Read More

An exhibition of Africa Comics is showing at the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York, until 18 March 2007. It features the work of 32 artists from across the ... Read More

The brutal circumstances of Biko's death in a Pretoria prison cell caused a worldwide outcry and he became a martyr and symbol of black resistance to the oppressive Apartheid regime. ... Read More

"The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves." This quote ... Read More

Despite the High Court in Botswana ruling that the eviction of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve was as unlawful and unconstitutional, the government has issued terms for their ... Read More

South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki has warned fellow African leaders to "guard against sinking into a 'colonial relationship' with China as Beijing expands its push for raw materials across the ... Read More

Botswana's High Court has ruled that the state's eviction of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) was unlawful and unconstitutional. Diamonds were discovered in the reserve in the ... Read More

After a trial lasting 12 years, Ethiopia's Federal High Court in Addis Ababa has found ex-dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in abstentia of genocide. Mengistu is currently living in exile ... Read More

It seems King Tutankhamun wasn't murdered after all, but died from a broken leg. According to National Geographic a new CT scan of King Tutankhamun's mummy "showed a thin coating ... Read More

The Africa House by Christina Lamb tells the intriguing story of how the author came to visit Shiwa Ng'andu in Zambia and how she pieced together the story of Stewart ... Read More

With the swearing in of its first-ever democratically elected president, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is at a turning point. At his inauguration, President Joseph Kabila announced he "would ... Read More

The Mau Mau were a militant African nationalist movement active in Kenya during the 1950s whose main aim was to remove British rule and European settlers from the country. Find ... Read More

An archaeological find in Botswana has shown that some 70,000 years ago our ancestors were engaged in ritual practice, which is 30,000 years earlier than the oldest archaeological finds in ... Read More

The village of Qurna, build on top of pharaonic tombs in Luxor, Egypt, is being demolished and the families moved to "an alternative settlement" by the Egyptian government. According to ... Read More