Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "At the beginning, I thought we were digging a deep hole for ourselves, as people feel so passionately about this character," says ...

This is one of the first large scale series made by Africans about Africa's own history - telling the story of the making of the iconic African King. It's set in the 1700s and follows him from ...

What if there were 100 characters in a fantasy world, but you only got to hear 11 sides of the story? That is the premise behind Blood of Kings, South African author Tapelo Zama’s debut epic fantasy ...

Reviewed by John K. Thornton in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 511-513. "As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small ...

Host Allison Keyes is joined by NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton for a peek into her reporter's notebook and some of the stories coming out of the continent. These stories include ...

Véronique Tadjo, a Franco-Ivorian novelist and painter, commander of arts and letters and president of the jury of the Orange Prize for Books in Africa, has lived in the UK for several years. As an ...