Birhanu Degefa was visiting family in the Ethiopian city of Shire in November, when soldiers suddenly began rounding up men ...

A black vinyl record with a brick-red label spun on the Philips gramophone, playing Muluken Melese’s Bemistir Kiberign during one of our chaotic childhood ...

Listen, that whole chaotic mood swing—last week, or the one before, who even knows—was extreme. A tight Friday wrap that pulled a cosmic all-nighter, spilling ...

Under Trump's budget law, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty and a struggle ...

DONKOR Long after political independence, Ghana still wrestles with a subtler inheritance: the dominance of foreign languages over native tongues. On the dawn of 6th March 1957, as Kwame Nkrumah and ...

A new book, The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a port city, by Tanya Zack traces how migrant Ethiopians have shaped a ...

Former guerrilla radio operator Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of Ethiopia's rebellious northern forces, says he is still ...

After European Empires were done scrambling for Africa, not much of the African continent was left to be ruled by its native ...

In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in ...

At high schools across the United States, students can take for the first time an Advanced Placement course in African American studies that addresses “the vital contributions and experiences of ...