From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near ...

Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, the celebrated Ugandan scholar Prof Mahmood Mamdani delivers ...

The line-up includes Whispers and Shouts, documenting a Cape Town exhibition on the Dutch slavery legacy; WAT WAS HIE?, a ...

You might think South Africa was awash with occult crime if you scrolled through the country’s tabloids, social media and ...

The right to seek safety and move across borders, is not a privilege to be doled out to the few, but a fundamental human ...

During his official visit to Malaysia, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa reflects on 300 years of shared history between the two nations, tracing cultural and ancestral links rooted in slavery ...

He died eight days after an attack outside his university gates. On August 13, 22-year-old Leeroy Kundai Ziweya, a Zimbabwean ...

The main obstacle to correcting this historical flaw is the rigid application of colonial boundaries, often defended by the legal principle of uti possidetis juris (the sanctity of colonial borders) ...