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Africa was vital to Francis’s papacy — and will shape the church’s future
One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...
'The flag is mine': Man who claims he designed SA flag, gives Gayton McKenzie an ultimatum
Thembani Mqhayi insists Fredericks Brownell, who was credited for the design of the flag, stole his designs and submitted ...
First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa
No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to ...
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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
Catholics remember Pope Francis as a friend of Africa, with some setting theology aside
Central African Republic’s capital had been torn apart by inter-religious violence leading up to Pope Francis’ 2015 visit, ...