People & Politics

An activist in India has become the first person from Siddhi community — a tiny African-origin ethnic group — to become a legislator in the country.

Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela at South Africa's infamous Rivonia Trial, has died at 95.

Prof’ Ikechukwu Nwachukwu Dikko, an American of Nigerian parentage and a student of Notre Dame High School in Connecticut, has won the Presidential Award For Elite Scholarship in America and the Connecticut Seal of Biliteracy.

A statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes has been decapitated in Cape Town in South Africa. The statue had previously been targeted and was first vandalised in 2001.

Charles Egbu: Nigerian Professor Appointed Vice Chancellor Of Leeds Trinity University, UK. He will take over from Professor Margaret who will step down after seven years as Vice-Chancellor.

Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president and liberation hero Nelson Mandela, died on Monday, the Mandela family said.

Pope Francis has appointed Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona, a Nigerian professor, to the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

France's armed forces ministry has provided local authorities with a 210-page booklet containing the names of 100 Africans who fought for France in World War Two, so that streets and squares may be named after them.

The skulls of 24 Algerian anti-colonial soldiers, beheaded by French forces during colonial France's conquest of the North African country that had been lying in storage in a Paris museum, were formally buried on Sunday. The skulls were received from...

Nigerian-British writer, Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, has been named the author of the year at the British Book awards, the first black writer to ever win the category. The British Book awards, also known as the Nibbies, are produced by...