Bekele’s biography is as dramatic, monumental, and remarkable as the business empire he built. Born into a family of middle-class nobility, his father, Basha Molla Banjaw, served the legendary Adwa ...

"Rapt", shot in 1934 by an Estonian who fled the Bolshevik Revolution, has won a new lease of life after meticulous ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

As we look through the lens of history, the quest for independence has shaped the global landscape. Many nations have emerged ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie ...

Growth in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to remain at 3.2 percent in 2019 and rise to 3.6 percent in 2020. The expected recovery, however, is at a slower pace than previously envisaged for about ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of ...

China has launched a new global mediation body to resolve disputes. How will this initiative reshape international conflict ...

Li, G. and Liu, L. (2025) “Barrens” or “Heavens”: African Geography Imagination under Shakespeare’s Foreign Land Narratives. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 13, 182-195. doi: 10.4236/jss.2025.137010 ...

The richest among them is Aliko Dangote from Nigeria, who made his fortune in the cement, food products and fertilizer ...