American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, during the opening ...

Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ...

Crater of the Nyiragongo volcano and looking over the crater of another, extinct volcano, in North Kivu Province, in Congo.

and particularly by a wood and brass creation from the Ngombe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Through May 9, the museum will feature "Baule: African Art/Western Eyes," which ...

These were the first steps of “The Herds”, a moving theatre performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Arctic Circle in a bid to ...

For several months, the pan-African organisation has been trying to get the warring parties and traditional leaders to sign a reconciliation charter, which would mark a potential starting point for ...

Another $200m will be made available to the government for the construction of 5,000 social housing units in the capital and its northern suburbs. In addition, $250m is expected to be earmarked for ...

Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the “Horn-books” caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends ...

These were the first steps of “The Herds,” a moving theater performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Arctic Circle in a bid to ...

Full of culture and some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, an African vacation offers more than meets the eye. The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous ...

April 15, 2025 • Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis. April 15, 2025 • As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the ...

Amy Crawford | | Read More Amy Crawford is a Michigan-based freelance journalist writing about cities, science, the environment, art and education. A longtime Smithsonian contributor, her work ...