The island off the coast of Germany had been a point of tension for centuries before it was traded in a deal with Britain.

An Eritrean chef, who fled war and hardship, found solace in painting but only gained recognition after his death. Having ...

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.

The birds are out! The flowers are budding! And my picnic blanket is officially rolling out! There’s nothing quite like the ...

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial ...

The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, a conflict that lasted between 38 and 45 minutes on August 27, 1896. The fighting resulted from the death of pro-British Sultan Hamad bin ...

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

This included the Integrated Coastal Environment Management Strategy in Zanzibar and the Mainland as well as marine spatial planning. The strategy in both Zanzibar and the Mainland amounted to a ...

The SEOM was led by Dr. Amani Abeid Karume, Former President of Zanzibar, who assumed the role of Head of Mission ... whose core purpose is to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. We ...

It could also have constituted a trigger for civil war. Dr. Verwoerd’s office never acknowledged ... and bloody strife was sapping the prospects of Zanzibar. Most commonly, there was a perversion of ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...