The two main blog portals are African Path and African Loft. Both portals have a list of regular authors some of whom are bloggers and both syndicate content from select blogs. African Path includes a ...

If you are following African blogs, you might be interested to know the top ranked blogs in the African blogosphere. Through Afrigator’s ranking system we are able to know the top ranked blogs in ...

The winners of Waxal – Blogging Africa Awards (BAA) have been announced. Waxal is an initiative of Panos Institute of West Africa (PIWA) with the partnership of Highway Africa and Global Voices Online ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. If a section of the Western media is to be believed, ongoing great power ...

When I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), one exhibit stopped me in my tracks. It described European traders arriving in Africa to exchange goods with ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Pope Francis addressed a Vatican conference on “the Debt Crisis in the Global ...

In the early 1400s, the legacy of the great Mali Empire was still strong. Mali had reached its zenith under Mansa Musa (r. ca. 1312–1337), whose fabled pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 revealed the ...

Africa has faced many challenges, including violent conflicts and harsh weather conditions, which have halted the growth of the region. According to a report by McKinsey, despite having a strong start ...

As children across Africa return to school this week, they might find a very different landscape to the one they left behind before the pandemic. Classroom sizes in some schools will be smaller due to ...

Africa doesn’t matter militarily to America. No doubt, a “secure and stable” Africa would be welcome and thus an “interest,” but it is not an important one. Nor is it attainable, at least at a ...