While less well-known than its neighbor Rwanda, Burundi has a long and fascinating history. Sadly, its history is also full ...

Around 700 years ago, people living on hilltop settlements on the edge of the Kalahari wore beads, bangles and clips made ...

Rwanda's government has placed growing emphasis on border security in recent years, using this term to describe the military and physical measures maintained along the country's frontiers. President ...

As a meticulous student of the African continent who has closely evaluated its historical trajectories from the pre-colonial ...

San populations from Botswana and Namibia retain exceptional linguistic, cultural, and genetic diversity, but few Khoisan-speaking groups remain south of the Kalahari Desert. However, historically, ...

An international conference in Baku on 21 August is putting Belgium’s colonial record in Africa under renewed scrutiny. Officials, United Nations experts, researchers and human rights advocates are ...

“Colonialism was not limited solely to the occupation of territories; it also shaped institutions that influenced political power, social identities, economic relations, and mechanisms of ...

An international conference titled "Belgium's colonial injustice and the 101-year path to reparations," organized by the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), will be held in Baku on August 21. According to ...

From my experience, diplomacy allows disagreement. It does not suspend the obligation to respect facts. That distinction matters particularly in the Great Lakes region, where political rhetoric, ...

Scholastique Mukasonga, the Rwandan writer whose work has spent two decades bearing witness to the genocide against the Tutsi, is returning this November with a book that marks a departure. Murmurs ...