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, 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
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,
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
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.
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
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
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