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.

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

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

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

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.

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.

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.

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

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

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

It’s a made-up label.

Reconstructing an ancient African civilization heretofore mostly ignored.

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.

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

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

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

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

To be mentally ill in Ghana.

The deserted villages of Senegal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?