Speaking on Oprah Winfrey's show, 'The Oprah Conversation’, he emphatically stated that he did not want his descendants to have to deal with racial injustice.

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and its biggest economy. Nigeria’s diplomacy and influence is very strong across West Africa and on the continent at large.

The presidency confirmed the incident and that President Muhammadu Buhari has "directed the Armed Forces and Police, to ensure immediate and safe return of all the captives.

Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly knowns as Bobi Wine, has threatened to withdraw an election petition against President Yoweri Museveni, citing "bias" and "frustration" from the Supreme Court.

Paul Rusesabagina has faced down murderous militias and been feted in Hollywood. On Wednesday, the former hotelier, depicted as a hero in a movie about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, will defend himself against charges of terrorism in a Kigali courtroom.

Two years after his widely publicized arrest by authorities in the United States, Obinwanna Okeke, a celebrated young entrepreneur has been jailed for cyber crimes and wire fraud.

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday in the Algerian town of Kherrata to voice support for the Hirak protest movement that ousted Algeria’s veteran president in 2019 before the COVID-19 crisis forced it off the streets last year.

The eruption of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region 100 days ago has pitted journalists wanting to report on the conflict against a government seeking to maintain total narrative control.

The council of ministers of the economic blocs Southern African Development Community (SADC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) discussed — among other topics, the draft guidelines of the three-part mechanism on safe movement in the region.