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Africa

Best Article Travel

The Kenyan Maasai Who Once Hunted Lions Are Now Their Saviors

A decade ago, scientists worried the lion could go extinct in Kenya by 2020. But today the area’s lion population is thriving thanks to an extraordinary group.

Andrew Dubbins The Daily Beast Jan 2021 30min Permalink

Crime

The Hunt for One of the World's Most Wanted Men

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Joshua Hammer GQ Jan 2021 30min Permalink

Arts

Sculpture and Flow

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

Julian Lucas New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article Science World

The World in Its Extreme

A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.

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William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 1991 1h10min Permalink

Science World

Hell in the Hot Zone

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

Jeffrey E. Stern Vanity Fair Oct 2014 20min Permalink

World

Oceans Apart

An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

Tommy Trenchard Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Reprints Arts World Music

In the Jungle

How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.

Rian Malan Rolling Stone May 2000 45min Permalink

Best Article Science World

An Elephant Crackup?

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

Charles Siebert New York Times Magazine Oct 2006 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

Unprotected

An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped.

Finlay Young ProPublica Oct 2018 55min Permalink

World

It Was Like There Was a Fog in the Sky Only I Could See

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

Ashoka Mukpo Popula Aug 2018 35min Permalink

Sports World

Afro-Europe in the World Cup

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

Laurent Dubois Roads & Kingdoms Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

Cashgate

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

Shaun Raviv Latterly May 2018 40min Permalink

Science

There's No Scientific Basis for Race

It’s a made-up label.

Elizabeth Kolbert National Geographic Mar 2018 10min Permalink

History World

In Sudan, Rediscovering Ancient Nubia Before It’s Too Late

Reconstructing an ancient African civilization heretofore mostly ignored.

Amy Maxmen Undark Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink

World

The True Story of the Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana

Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.

Yepoka Yeebo The Guardian Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Best Article World

Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

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Ben Taub New Yorker Nov 2017 35min Permalink

World Movies & TV

Pirates and Traders

The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

Emily Witt n+1 Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Business World

The Brothers Who Bought South Africa

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

Matthew Campbell, Franz Wild Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2017 25min Permalink

World Health

A Prayer’s Chance

To be mentally ill in Ghana.

Brian Goldstone Harper's Apr 2017 30min Permalink

Arts Politics

No Country For Young Men

The deserted villages of Senegal.

Kieran Guilbert Thomson Reuters Foundation Oct 2016 15min Permalink

World Travel

Everyone Is an Immigrant

On the Italian island Lampedusa— “politically Europe, but geographically Africa”—as a wave of African immigrants is due to arrive from Libya by boat, ruining the tourist season.

Eliza Griswold Poetry Jan 2012 20min Permalink

Travel

Explorer Lost

Thirteen years ago, Chris Velten disappeared while retracing the travels of explorer Mungo Park in Africa. He hadn’t been heard from at all — until he sent a friend request.

Jamie Maddison Love Nature May 2016 20min Permalink

Business World

The Untouchables

A brazen land grab in Zimbabwe and why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.

Michael Hobbes Foreign Policy Apr 2016 15min Permalink

World Movies & TV

Small But Supa Tough

Welcome to Wakaliwood, where a resourceful producer in the slums of Kampala makes action movies like Who Killed Captain Alex? Uganda’s First Action Movie for about $200 apiece.

David Bertrand Hazlitt Apr 2016 15min Permalink

Making a Murderer in Uganda

Kidnapped by rebels when he was 9, Dominic Ongwen grew up to command fighters who slaughtered, raped, and pillaged. Is he guilty of heinous crimes or was he a hostage the whole time?

Michela Wrong Foreign Policy Jan 2016 15min Permalink

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