Beneath the dust of colonial archives lies another Africa—one painted in ochre and song, where healers crossed gender and love itself remade the world. Long before Victorian law or missionary decree, ...

Social media speculation about di contents of a textbook grow into a wider conversation about representation for Nigeria ...

Ghana is rightly celebrated for its democratic record - four peaceful transitions of power, a vibrant press, an active civil ...

Mabel Dove Danquah was a journalist, political activist, and writer, recognised as one of the first women in West Africa to make significant contributions to journalism and politics.

In the days that preceded March 6, 1957, when the Gold Coast shed its colonial label and stood on the brink of independence, its leaders reached back into West Africa’s deep past to settle on the name ...

Before Africans could be enslaved at scale, they first had to be portrayed as living outside the timeline of civilization itself. This narrative—the pre-story of slavery—made domination appear not ...

War, we know, is rarely the product of a single cause. More often, it is born of a convergence of political, economic, social, and ideological pressures. At its core, every war is an expression of ...

By Eugenia Otenwaa, Accra, Mar. 10, GNA – The Restitution Africa Forum has been launched in Accra to promote dialogue on the return of African cultural heritage and the restoration of the continent’s ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr is an interesting author and a history-conscious son of Africa. The latter identity is particularly important because Pratt Jnr has chosen a struggle that is guaranteed to be lifelong, ...

In South Africa, racial narratives complicate perceptions of Cape Town, revealing a stark divide between the realities of ...