It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Africa’s cities are no longer passive recipients of political decisions; they are the crucibles of civic anger, spatial symbolism and generational reckoning. As elections, succession battles and ...

Fikile Mbalula has built a close network of allies and confidants who help keep his political engine running, even as he denies speculation that he’s preparing a presidential bid. At 54, Fikile ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns challenged one-party rule, rattled authorities and gave him outsized ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

He was one of the most pivotal public figures in Kenya. He died this week after fighting against tribalism for decades. By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman was the Times’s East Africa bureau chief ...

South Africa has refused a last-minute request by the United States to accredit eight embassy staffers to attend the conclusion of the two-day G20 Leaders’ Summit on Sunday where the G20 presidency ...

Amanda Gouws receives funding from the National Research Foundation through her SARChI Chair in Gender Politics. Joseph Ayodele Kupolusi receives funding from the National Research Foundation through ...