The 60th Anniversary celebration of African Union has been observed under the theme “Our Africa, Our Future”. African continent had celebrated six decades of independence under the umbrella of the ...

Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. —Julius Nyerere (1961) The aspirations that accompanied African independence ...

Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, at Cape Town’s city hall on Feb. 6, 2025. (Credit: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – One Catholic leader in Africa says U.S. President ...

The year 1960 is known as the “Year of Africa” because of a number of events that occurred then most notably the independence of seventeen African states. Between January and December of 1960, 17 ...

Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana from its independence in 1957 to his overthrow in a military coup in 1966, was in his day as important as Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Mohandas Gandhi of India ...

The mid-twentieth century marked a transformative period for Africa as 29 countries achieved independence between 1956 and 1964, signaling the dawn of the nation-state across the continent. This era ...

Africa is a vast and abundant continent. Roughly ten times the size of India and three times the size of China, it is home to nearly 18 percent of the world’s population and roughly 30 percent of its ...