One of the most vicious groups operating in the region is Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and ...

Tapi Tapi makes ice cream with a deep mission: to soothe the collective souls of African people by sharing folk traditions, ...

Bassist and composer Benjamin Jephta was "born-free" in 1992 in South Africa, in the post-apartheid era, and grew up in the "colored township" of Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. The exploration of ...

Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso was in Mosco-Russia for Russian President Vladimir Putin victory day on the 8th May, 2025 and this was the first trip to oversees countries after he ...

Air travel within West Africa remains the most expensive globally, posing a major challenge to regional integration, according to the Economic Community of West African States. This was disclosed ...

ATHENS, - West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

14th Century AD - Bantu people begin to arrive during the ... Germany annexes the territory as South West Africa. 1915 - South Africa takes over territory during World War One.

MODERN MAPS OF West Africa, a region of more than three million ... from “ki ngombo,” the term for okra in Kimbundu, a Bantu language of Angola — until the vegetable’s majestic cache ...

Bantu is currently building a new home in St. Louis’s West End neighborhood. It is round, designed to look like an African hut, and will be decorated with African symbols. The building is two ...