History

How colonialism shaped modern Africa

The pre-colonial kingdoms of Ghana

The slave trade in West Africa: a journey through history

The Swahili Coast: a history of trade and culture

Patrice Lumumba: Belgium Orders Trial in a Long Delayed Reckoning

The wounds that never fully healed: Biafra and the war that shaped a nation

The Swahili Coast: where Africa met the Indian Ocean trade winds

Wearing Kenya: the bracelet story

The last stand of the Kingdom of Benin: art theft and royal exile

Disco Matanga: inside the Giriama nightlong farewell where grief dances

Silent pillars: Kenya’s obelisks

Dedan Kimathi: the man who walked into the forest

The million-dollar walk: the audacious heist of Charles Omondi

Wabera Street: the assassination that ignited the Shifta War

Wole Soyinka: Africa’s literary conscience

Fort Hall, Murang’a, (1955): a crucible of colonial power and resistance

Remembering Field Marshal Muthoni wa Kirima (1931–2023)

Freedom fighter: the forests of resistance

A closer look at the great Kingdom of Zimbabwe

Starlight Club: Nairobi’s legendary nightlife of the ’70s and ’80s

Ivory, power and human lives: the shadow empire of Tippu Tip

Pio Gama Pinto: Kenya’s quiet revolutionary

The Brazilian Barracoon: Badagry’s silent witness to the Atlantic slave trade

Thomas Sankara: Africa’s revolutionary visionary