Guy Scott, the Zambian politician who briefly served as acting president to become Africa’s first white head of state in more ...

Most of the world’s French speakers are now African. Their growing linguistic influence is touching off debates about whom ...

Safura Abdool Karim is head of pandemic preparedness and response and senior scientist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South ...

One of the most notable figures of the 2026 FIFA World Cup emerged during Ghana’s first match of the tournament: the “juju ...

Tucked beneath the National Mall, inside the subterranean galleries of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, an enchanting world of queer discovery awaits — at least until August 23. You ...

Greater diagnostic testing for cryptococcal meningitis could help avert 135,000 deaths a year in Africa, writes Edith Magak.

MTN Group Chairman Mcebisi Jonas used the funeral service of Zimbabwean-born activist and public servant Thokozani Damasane to deliver a sweeping and unsparing condemnation of the ongoing ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In ...

Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

Author Michael Pollan has tackled plants, food and psychedelics in bestselling books including The Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind. Now, he has taken on the thorny problem of ...