Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
The historic medinas of Marrakech, Cairo, Fez, Tunis, and Sana'a have been treated by UNESCO and by domestic planning authorities as heritage sites. That is the legal category. …
Touba, the holy city of the Mouride brotherhood, is the second-largest urban settlement in Senegal after Dakar, with population estimates ranging from 800,000 to 1.2 million depending on …
If you arrive at Kigali International Airport and your taxi drops you in the Nyarugenge district, you will notice: the streets are clean, the traffic is orderly, the …
The Sahelian transhumance corridor system — the seasonal cattle-movement routes linking Sahelian dry-season grazing in southern Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger with Sudanian-zone wet-season grazing further …
Nairobi's three largest informal settlements — Kibera, Mathare, and Mukuru — together house roughly 1.2 to 1.5 million residents, depending on whose census you accept. The official population …
On 25 June 2024 protestors breached the Kenyan Parliament during a vote on the Finance Bill. The Bill, which would have introduced new VAT on bread and motor …
Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) programme, launched as a national policy in 1999 after the Navrongo pilot work in the late 1990s, is the principal mechanism …