Nakuru and Kisumu, Kenya – Ogoyi Ogunde belonged to a proud family. His father had carved a home for their clan out of the earth in an area thick with bush, and accumulated a wealth of cows and ...

22 years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

HIV/AIDS will be a central theme throughout President Bush's trip, but it may be a particular focus on Botswana, where the HIV/AIDS infection rates are over 36 percent, and even higher in some ...

Africa’s postcolonial condition is driven by a sad irony which has painfully thrust on the hapless continent the antithesis of what the people yearned for in their quest for freedom decades ago.

In 1994, the Clinton administration initially used fine semantic distinctions to avoid calling the genocide in Rwanda by its true name—and it led the Security Council coalition against intervention.