President Joyce Banda’s legacy may be cut short if a court fails to uphold her annulment of last week’s poll and schedule a new election in 90 days. ...

Almost a month after more than 200 boarding school girls were kidnapped by a militia group dressed as soldiers, a top Nigerian officer ...

Students and police clashed in the capital city of the West African nation of Niger this week over essential stipends held up by a school official. ...

Legendary poetess Maya Angelou was renowned in Africa much as she was beloved in the country of her birth. ...

Damion Murrill has music in his blood. As a member of the GRAMMY Award and Stellar Award-nominated family ensemble, The Murrills, Damion has been blessed ...

On May 23rd, 2014, Dr. Maya Angelou tweeted, “Listen to yourself, and in that quietude you may hear the voice of God.” On May 28th, the woman who wrote the groundbreaking autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was found dead in her Winston-Salem home. Dr. Angelou was 86. ...

Wilmington chef Keith Rhodes was tapped by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to create a lunch menu using North Carolina agricultural ...

A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court may decide the final resting place for Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa, a South African short story writer ...

Abiding by Senegalese law, a 10 year old girl was compelled to complete her pregnancy despite having little knowledge of the ‘facts of life.’ ...

With a new outbreak of fierce fighting reported in northern Mali’s contested Tuareg lands, reports that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has purchased ...