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Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere was awarded with the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. The announcement was made on...

The fourth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Merkorios, has passed away after several weeks of hospital treatment...

Burkina Faso's new strongman, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has had first-hand experience of the brutal militant insurgency that he cites...

By Peter Kimani* Kenya’s most celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong'o marked his 84 birthday on January 5. Having published his...

Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was...

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a controversial figure in Malian history, was born January 29, 1945, in the southern Malian city of...

By Gavin Evans* Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, who has died in hospital in the capital, Lusaka, at the age...

General Idriss Déby Itno, a military powerhouse and one of Africa's longest-serving leaders was born in 1952 into a family of...

By Aikande Clement Kwayu*   John Joseph Pombe Magufuli was a man who deftly played the long political game. He was...

By Gerhard Maré* Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, who has passed away at the age of 72, was the longest reigning of all Zulu...