The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
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Tax hikes and tension: Battle over West Africa’s mining wealth
Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...
Africa's largest human microbiome study sheds light on gut diversity and health
The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...
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West Africa’s new geopolitical reality
We get an update on an overnight collision between a commercial airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter above Washington before ...
In the Footsteps of the Enslaved
Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...
After a Wave of Coups, 3 African Nations Leave Decades-old Alliance
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...
ECOWAS pledges to ‘keep door open’ after 3 coup-hit West African nations exit regional bloc
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.
South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project
Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...