Supporters laud his three-decade rule for drastically cutting poverty, saving Indonesia’s economy and delivering national ...

Last Monday, we all woke up to the not-so-shocking news of Paul Biya’s eighth-term victory at age 92. I chuckled because this ...

Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...

Peter York is a consultant, broadcaster and author. He hosts the Peter York’s Culture Wars House Party podcast. His books include “Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World’s Most Colourful Despots” and ...

November 11, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, ending more than five centuries of Portuguese ...

WHEN I entered the University of Guyana as a freshman in the history programme, one of the books sweeping the world and the UG campus was E. F. Schumacher’s ...

THE HOLLOWNESS OF THE NATIONAL PARTY FOREIGN POLICY AND THE HOLLOW MAN THAT PURSUED IT - PIK BOTHA, AN ASSESSMENT “No man is a hero to his valet” Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel \{ ...

Westport Civic Trust will host a talk by Conall O’Cuinn on Tuesday, November 11th, at 8pm in the Plaza Hotel in Westport.

A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they have attacked convoys supplying ...

Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during ...

When Cameroon rsquo;s founding president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, stepped down in November 1982, he left behind one of Central Africa rsquo;s most promising economies .

Power, in Africa, has become a mirror—whoever stares into it too long starts to think he’s divine. Until we smash that mirror and build systems that outlast egos, we’ll keep repeating this endless ...