Younger political leaders are reshaping South Africa's landscape, ushering in fresh perspectives and dynamic reforms across ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

France has long trumpeted its close ties to Africa. French troops have not hesitated to jump in to support a favored despot. It appears that the favors went both ways. Robert Bourgi, a longtime ...

From the first Black president to the first African-American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people ...

In The Age of Change: How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics, Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), explores ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -For investors, the spectacle of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's fraught Oval Office encounter with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was little more than a sideshow. The ...

It is so crucial, and even urgent for the leaders to heed the voices of the youth, if we are to silence the guns," said African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Power-hungry ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new organization known as the African Political Action Committee of Staten Island has launched in the hopes of ensuring that the voices of African and African American ...

That scale of gain explains both the promise of integration and the resistance to it. AfCFTA would shift advantage away from firms and sectors ...

Across our continent, a dangerous pattern is tightening its grip on our republics. Ageing leaders — once celebrated as liberators, revolutionaries, or technocrats — are quietly reshaping African ...