Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at least 78 workers dead by mid-January. Informal miners are the shadow of an ...

Muhammad operates the Torchlight Academy Black History tours year-round, especially during black history month and Juneteenth. He says the words etched in stone is a sign that delineates segregation, ...

Glimpses of local life caught through the window, moments of connection with your fellow passengers, the chance to slow down and watch landscapes unfold with the miles— train journeys are the most ...

The name “North 40” is a nod to the agricultural roots of Nebraska, referring to the north forty acres of a farm. But don’t ...

Artist Chino Ridge, London-based multi-disciplinary artist, with a Madison connection, will have her first solo exhibition in ...

The world’s largest agricultural boom is transforming a vast savanna of hidden wonders. Here’s what happens when progress ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting US aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South African farmers, claiming the country's new ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of ...

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

A state judge has refused to close court records to the public in the cases of three people who were associated with a Catholic school in Mandan where a teenage male student allegedly committed sexual ...