Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former gold mine worker smokes heroin on the street in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South Africa When Nelson ...

The world's population is on a steady rise, with the United Nations predicting it to peak at around 10 billion in the mid-2080s. As such, it's no shocker that new mega-cities are sprouting up across ...

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar’s Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye ...

From 1992 to 1999, I worked as a book vendor on Sixth Avenue at 8th Street in Greenwich Village. It was there that I befriended Yusef, an African from Côte d’Ivoire who was trying to “make business,” ...

Colorful patterned fabrics will twirl, rhythmic beats will pulse, and mouthwatering aromas will fill the Iowa City air on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the inaugural African Festival of Arts and Culture. The ...

KIAMBU, Kenya — Turn into Tatu City on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and it feels like entering a different world. Even the country’s most reckless drivers are transformed, slowing to a ...

The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins ...

Here's what you need to know before visiting Cape Town, from where to stay to what to do. Sit beneath the swaying palms and watch the Atlantic swallow the African sun at Ellerman House, one of ...

It’s one of the indicators used to measure urban economic appeal: how much cash can a city pull in? It is also one of the main criteria that has helped The Africa Report build our exclusive ranking of ...

His signature “happy day” greeting and a warm smile – that was all Carson residents needed from the forefather of the city in recent years. After all, he’d done so much for Carson, from the very ...