Tag: africa
Sudan’s civil war: A visual guide to the brutal conflict
Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington
Sudan’s brutal civil war has dragged on for more than 2½ years, displacing millions...
Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...
Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut
Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it...
Madagascar’s military power grab shows Africa’s coup problem isn’t restricted to...
John Joseph Chin, Carnegie Mellon University
Those who rise to power through a coup often fall by the same...
Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an...
Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan
Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the...
Will Africa’s young voters continue to punish incumbents at the ballot...
Richard Aidoo, Coastal Carolina University
Voters in Gabon head to the ballot box on April 12, 2025, in a...
How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter...
Bronwen Powell, Penn State and Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Penn State
For generations, collard greens have formed an important part of...
China flexes its media muscle in Africa – encouraging positive headlines...
Mitchell Gallagher, Wayne State University
Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a...
Why the price of your favorite chocolate will continue to rise
Narcisa Pricope, Mississippi State University
Valentine’s Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
