Rice University archaeologist Rod McIntosh knew it was time to leave his team's dig site in Mali, West Africa, last year when he learned a U.S. Agency for International Development truck nearby was ...

But in Africa, mining bulk commodities like this more frequently involves building costly deep-water ports and railways, as existing infrastructure never existed, or is in bad repair. Even during the ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

The fiftieth anniversary of ROAPE coincidentally marks 30 years of what may be called ‘bourgeois democracy’ in South Africa. Walter Rodney’s debate with mainly white lecturers (including early ...