Society

Long portrayed as the “showcase” of West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire descended into civil war on the night of September 19, 2002. Behind the crackle...

Since September 25, 2025, Madagascar has been gripped by a wave of social unrest that caught the authorities off guard. What began as a...

The poor relation, the distant cousin barely noticed, like those cash-strapped members of the family, school—education in Africa in general and West Africa in...

On October 15, 1987, gunfire erupted across Ouagadougou. Within minutes, Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, fell under the bullets of his own comrades-in-arms....

Re-elected for an eighth term at the age of 92, Paul Biya is facing unprecedented backlash. Cities set ablaze, hundreds arrested, a people losing...

How Fourteen Powers Redrew a Continent and Prepared a Century of Fractures Between November 1884 and February 1885, the Berlin Conference brought together fourteen European...

Hair relaxing chemically restructures the keratin in afro-textured hair. Burns, breakage, fragility: the immediate risks are well established. Recent studies have also observed statistical...

```html On February 15, 2026, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama announced the upcoming submission of a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly aimed at...

On March 4, 2007, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, a major political agreement was signed between Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and the leader of the...