Suspected intercommunal violence in Nigeria's north-central Plateau state earlier this week has killed more than 40 people, ...

Accra Population: 34,777,522 (as of 2024) Official Languages: The most widely spoken local language in Ghana is Twi, particularly in the southern regions. Other commonly spoken languages include Ewe, ...

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

Top of the pops is Arabic, spoken by some 150 million people across the continent. It’s the liturgical language of Islam and ...

Meanwhile, both Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are home to over 200 languages. In Cameroon, Bulu, Beti ...

Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh has widely been thought to be the final resting place of the ark, thanks to a conspiracy peddled ...

Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, and Arabic.” The post is accompanied by a map of the Horn of Africa in which Ethiopia’s borders appear to extend to the coast of the Red Sea ...

Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea ...

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism. A response to the legacy of the imperialist and mining ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ago that took me back to the 1990s, and reminded me of how beautiful and complex nonstandard speech can be.

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...