Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss ...

Explore how toxic colonialism continues to plague Africa, turning the continent into a dumping ground for the Global North's ...

The TAZARA, while built in the 1970s, follows routes surveyed by British and German missions during the colonial rule of Tanganyika (now Tanzania). While the passengers and goods on today’s ...

White rhinos have returned to Tanzania after nearly half a century, part of an initiative to revive a species lost to ...

Large-scale infrastructure projects across Africa are attracting billions of dollars in investment. They’re also replicating ...

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

We are against being treated like intruders on our own land." Tanzania's conservation policies are rooted in colonial-era frameworks that prioritized wildlife tourism over Indigenous land rights.

We are against being treated like intruders on our own land.” Tanzania’s conservation policies are rooted in colonial-era frameworks that prioritized wildlife tourism over Indigenous land rights.

Sophy Roberts combines history and travelogue in a compulsive account of ambition and hubris in 19th-century Africa ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary highlighting how digitization in a contextualized form can be used as a powerful research tool ...

Most colonial economies in Africa were extractive in a straightforward sense. Raw materials like copper, gold, rubber and timber were extracted and shipped to Europe to support the economies of ...