"Africa is on the rise and African people are also ascending," one person said. At Cape Coast Castle on the shores of the Ghanaian city, a sordid history belies its beauty. The castle overlooking the ...

Ramaphosa denies Trump's accusations and seeks "good discussions on trade." "There is no White genocide. It is a story that has been sold," said Thapelo Mohapi, secretary general of Abahlali ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House to talk about trade, but President Donald Trump had other plans. Trump wanted to talk about "genocide" of white people in South Africa, ...

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about Africa, so that’s where we come in. We’re setting the record straight about what you really need to know about Africa. Here are 3 common ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The transcript of this conversation has been edited for clarity. MG: Can you ...

Leaders of the world's largest economies will meet in Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 for the G20 summit, the first of its ...

IT IS EASY to make a case that Donald Trump cares little about Africa. On July 1st he closed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), absorbing an institution that spent 40% of ...

African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex ...

It wasn’t long ago that fact-checkers in Poland noticed a surge of online misinformation about Africa — anti-science claims about vaccines, anticolonialist claims involving Russia and anti-immigrant ...

Not long ago, I saw an article that would have both delighted and exasperated the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. “Entrepreneurs are planning autonomous ‘charter cities’ as an answer to Africa ...

Africa has an image problem. Or, put another way, the West has a perception problem. Because when we talk about Africa, more often than not, it's to talk about catastrophes and epidemics, and to ...

An assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University in New Jersey, Dieng leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.