This is the introduction to Analysing Africa, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their ...

Gen Z-led protests in two diverse African countries highlight frustration over years of poor governance. Fueled by social ...

Some of our leaders are blind to the destitution of our people, and to the plight of Lazaruses who lie skin and bones on the ...

A new World Bank report has revealed that Africa could play host to 87 percent of the world’s extremely poor population by 2030, an increase from the current 60 percent, if no significant reforms were ...

Although the multiculturalism of post-apartheid South Africa once led Nelson Mandela to popularize the phrase “rainbow nation ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs on assignment for TIME of people watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on television in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, one of the poorest urban areas in all of South ...

WHEATON, Ill. • Kendall Ciesemier was 11 when an idea to donate $360 to sponsor one child in Africa blossomed into a charity that would raise money for thousands of kids affected by AIDS. In that time ...

*Akon is not only a pop star, but he’s an activist and philanthropist who set out to help Africa. He started a non-profit organization, “Akon Lighting Africa.” His goal with the organization is ...

Across Africa, the death of Pope Francis is still being keenly felt as Catholic sisters and others mourn the pontiff who paid particular attention to the continent, visiting 10 countries there during ...