Africa: The Rise of African Hip Hop

Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s, was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it… Read more »

Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua

Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »

Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica

AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »

Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers

Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »

Africa: New Governance Index Is 'An African Effort' for Development

The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of… Read more »

Africa: New Survey Picks Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations

Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed… Read more »

Africa: Aid Critical To Ensuring Benefits From Trade

While developing and industrialized countries continue to wrestle in the Doha Round of negotiations to reach a new international trade agreement, there is increasing recognition… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official

The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »

Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa

In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000,  journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »

Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts

The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »

Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations

In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »

Africa: Why Worry about Africa?

The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »

Africa: Violence in Developing Countries

As violence and war grip societies all over the world, social scientists, economists and scholars are rushing to answer the question "why?" Several explanations of the… Read more »

Africa: Resistance to Modernization in Africa

The effectiveness of aid and development policies in Africa is almost always measured by scholars and policymakers. Similarly, support of or resistance to such policies is usually… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Hopes to Light Continent

The World Bank hopes to bring affordable and environmentally-friendly lighting products to up to 250 million Africans by the year 2030. Read more »

Africa: Flooding Affecting Millions

Flooding has affected millions of Africans throughout the continent in recent days. Read more »

Africa: Care To Quit U.S. Food Aid Program

The aid organization, Care, is withdrawing from U.S. food assistance programs because of inefficiency and the harm the programs do to local efforts to achieve food sufficiency. Read more »

Africa: Can the Continent Solve its Development Challenges?

Moeletsi Mbeki gave the keynote address at the Second Conference of the European Association of Centers of African Studies held at Leiden University in The Netherlands from July 11… Read more »

Africa: Zimbabwe Crisis "Intolerable," Says Annan

Zimbabwe's "downward spiral" was "intolerable and unsustainable," former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in Johannesburg on Sunday. Read more »

Africa: Care Seeks Votes from the Public for Its 'Water for the Poor' Project

A name that many people associate with disaster relief has become a large humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Now, its ambitious initiative to help communities… Read more »

Africa: Nigerian Runners Dominate Athletics

Nigerian sprinters have dominated this year's running competitions, winning four gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals. Read more »

Africa: U.S. Agoa Forum Meets in Accra

The sixth United States African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) Forum meets Wednesday and Thursday in Accra. Read more »

Africa: U.S. Representative Lantos Calls for More Support for Aids Program

Representative Tom Lantos (Democrat – California) has called on the United States Congress to support President George W. Bush's efforts to renew the President's… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Cancels Ghana Trip

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled her scheduled trip to Ghana this week to stay in Washington to focus on Middle East issues. Read more »

Africa: Rough Guide to African Blues

Album titles can be misleading, especially when they claim to describe a “best of” or “definitive collection” of something as subjective and personal as… Read more »