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Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and...

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War or the Great War of Africa or the Great African War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in...

The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé or Manden; Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by...

Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) (meaning humanity in Bantu) describes a set of closely related African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness...

Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787–22 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [ˈʃaːɠa]) and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of...

Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the...

Racism in South Africa can be traced back to the earliest historical accounts of interactions between African, Asian, and European peoples along the coast...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Founded...

South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority of people in South Africa and who have lived in what is now South Africa for thousands of years...

The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments...

The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco. The conflict...

Farouk I (/fəˈruːk/; Egyptian Arabic: فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali...

The National Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني, romanized: Jabhatu l-Taḥrīri l-Waṭanī; French: Front de libération nationale) commonly known...

Hurghada (/hərˈɡædə, -ˈɡɑː-/; Arabic: الغردقة al-Ġardaqa, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [el ɣæɾˈdæʔæ]) is a coastal city that serves as the largest city...

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army against the government of Uganda. After the Ugandan Civil War, Ugandan...

Tsonga (/ˈ(t)sɒŋɡə/ (T)SONG-gə) or, natively, Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa. It is mutually...

The pope (Coptic: Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ, romanized: Papa; Arabic: البابا, romanized: al-Bābā, lit. 'father'), also known as the Bishop of Alexandria or the Coptic pope...

This is a list of the busiest airports in Africa, ranked by total passengers per year, which includes arrival, departure and transit passengers. Cairo...

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the...