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Jerry Rawlings, From Coup-Plotter to Ghanaian Statesman, Dies at 73

Jer­ry Rawl­ings, a for­mer Ghana­ian Air Force offi­cer who led two mil­i­tary coups before steer­ing his coun­try toward democ­ra­cy with an author­i­tar­i­an hand, died on Thurs­day in the nation’s cap­i­tal, Accra. He was 73. Mr. Rawl­ings died in a hos­pi­tal “after

Sindika Dokolo, Crusader for Return of African Art, Dies at 48

Sindi­ka Doko­lo, a wealthy Con­golese art col­lec­tor who cru­sad­ed for the return of African art removed dur­ing the colo­nial era by West­ern muse­ums, art deal­ers and auc­tion hous­es, but who became embroiled this year in inves­ti­ga­tions into how his Angolan

The Afrobeats Star Davido, an Upbeat Voice in a Turbulent Time

Davi­do — the Amer­i­­can-born Niger­ian Afrobeats artist David Adede­ji Adeleke — has built an inter­na­tion­al career on songs about love and lust that have col­lec­tive­ly amassed more than a bil­lion streams. The album he is releas­ing on Fri­day, “A Better

Amadou Toumani Touré, Former Malian President, Dies at 72

Amadou Toumani Touré, a for­mer pres­i­dent of Mali who helped shape the country’s polit­i­cal land­scape over two decades before being top­pled in a mil­i­tary coup in 2012, died on Mon­day in Istan­bul. He was 72. Mr. Touré’s chief of staff, Seydou

Christopher Miller Named Acting Defense Secretary

WASHINGTON — A lit­­tle-known coun­tert­er­ror­ism offi­cial named Christo­pher C. Miller flew to the Mid­dle East last month to pur­sue a diplo­mat­ic idea: ask­ing Qatar to help devise plans to buy off or oth­er­wise mar­gin­al­ize some senior lead­ers of the Shabab,

Tanzanian Opposition Leader Leaves Country After Police Bar Protest

DODOMA, Tan­za­nia — Escort­ed by West­ern diplo­mats, Tanzania’s main oppo­si­tion can­di­date left the coun­try for Bel­gium on Tues­day after reject­ing a pres­i­den­tial elec­tion he assert­ed had wide­spread irreg­u­lar­i­ties. “I am not flee­ing the coun­try,” said the can­di­date, Tun­du Lis­su, who was

Skull Fossil Shows How Human Cousin Adapted to Changing Climate

On Father’s Day in June 2018, Saman­tha Good was work­ing on an exca­va­tion in the Dri­molen cave in South Africa’s Cra­dle of Humankind. She uncov­ered what appeared to be a canine tooth jut­ting out from the loose brown sed­i­ment. Ms.

Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Works Better Than Daily Pill in Women

A sin­gle shot giv­en every two months has proved to be more effec­tive than a dai­ly pill at pre­vent­ing H.I.V. in women, researchers report­ed on Mon­day, an advance that med­ical experts hailed as ground­break­ing in the fight against the deadly

How Covid-19 hit New York’s African community

The pan­dem­ic, and the asso­ci­at­ed eco­nom­ic fall­out, has been tough on Harlem’s African community.Many trade at the African mar­ket in Harlem, but busi­ness­es are real­ly strug­gling due to the coronavirus.Periods of lock­down have meant trade is down, and peo­ple are

Why Africa’s animation scene is booming

image copy­rightRID­WAN MOS­HOOD­Niger­ian ani­ma­tor Rid­wan Mos­hood was so deter­mined to learn how to make car­toons, he spent hours in inter­net cafés in Lagos, watch­ing YouTube lessons and tak­ing notes. “I would