As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

Nigeria and South Africa are the two largest economies in sub-Saharan Africa, generating almost one-third of the region’s GDP. Tragically, in the past decade both have gone backwards. On average, ...

A look at the enduring legacy of Yoruba culture that lives on in the Americas. When the slave ships docked in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures, traditions and religions ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2013, writer and academic Joe Studwell produced a brilliant, intellectually daring account of the factors ...

Africa is breaking apart along a giant crack that will form a new ocean between two large masses of land millions of years from now, the latest research shows. The split is taking place along the East ...