A new documentary on Afrobeats, Nigerian Yoruba music, and politics will look at a century of fuji, juju, apala, sakara, highlife and more ...

Many Black Americans experience racism at home in the U.S. Moving abroad has been a respite for these three expats.

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Our study thus confirmed what was found in people of African descent in the US: the genetic origin underpinning the excess ...

Not much is known about the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, save that it's regarded as the shortest war in history, lasting a total of just 38 minutes.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

DAR ES SALAAM hockey teams, Ngome and Black Mambaz, are set to face off in the city this morning as the battle for the trophy ...

NGOME and Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) hockey teams kicked off the 2025 Mapinduzi Hockey Cup in style, securing ...

The same ocean that once brought prosperity to Stone Town now poses an existential threat, as rising sea levels and extreme ...

A BUSINESSMAN who quit the UK to live abroad during Covid now runs a £46 million penthouse paradise on an island dubbed the “new Maldives”. Richard Ashby, 43, was earning £200,000 a ...