The government has withdrawn its support for the Miss South Africa pageant after it was unable to convince organisers to pull out of the Miss Universe pageant which will be held in ... Read more »
France has handed back 26 treasures that were looted from Benin during the colonial period, fulfilling a promise made by President Emmanuel Macron to restore a lost part of ... Read more »
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise. This was the third time Galgut ... Read more »
In many parts of the world, museums are considering how to present history through different lenses, rather than just representing colonial and imperialistic views of certain ... Read more »
The University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in England is set to return historic artefacts to the Uganda National Museum in Kampala. The items ... Read more »
Somali filmmaker Khadar Ahmed has won the top prize at the FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso for The Gravedigger's Wife, which he wrote and directed. The film is also ... Read more »
Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years. On September 14, Revocat Karemangingo, Read more »
The Kenyan Film Classification Board has done it again as it has banned the documentary I Am Samuel, which regulatory officials said, was intentionally produced to promote ... Read more »
The 27th edition of the Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) takes place in Burkina Faso from October 16 to 23, 2021. This year's edition will be ... Read more »
An ambitious project to raise awareness about rising insecurity and mass displacement in the Sahel has resulted in an original musical score from Mali songwriter Vieux Farka ... Read more »
AllAfrica publishes around 400 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.
Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.