Africa's cities don't get as much love as its majestic nature, but there are plenty of must-visit metropolises around the ...

Millions of African children are left behind, their right to education unfulfilled – it is about education systems failing to ensure that children acquire foundational skills. The reality is sobering.

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): I remember I was in school and I was having a debate with a very, very liberal friend of mine — very feminist, very liberal, probably wouldn't call me a friend anymore. But ...

From above, Benin City in southern Nigeria tells a striking story as forests and farmland give way to sprawling neighborhoods, laterite roads and industrial zones. In just four decades, the city has ...

Summary: New research suggests that what humans experience as visual beauty may actually be rooted in energy efficiency. Images that require fewer neurons and less metabolic work to process are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

The most unsettling image for a liberal observer is not a tank rolling into a presidential palace; it is the crowd of cheering citizens running alongside it. We create comfortable narratives to ...

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...

The early stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic saw no shortage of Angelenos who began creative projects to stay inspired and productive amid work slowdowns and social distancing. After all, how many ...

African Energy Week’s opening ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa set the tone and messaging for the week of discussions that would follow, with song, dance and spoken-word performances that ...

EXCLUSIVE: Giant Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to documentary feature Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks about the influential underground New York punk band. The deal was ...