Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) finds itself in the crosshairs of local power politics.

Stretching over 4,200 kilometers, the Niger River sustains millions of people across West Africa. Flowing through rainforest, savannah, and desert, it has been a source of life, commerce, and culture ...

Early on in his new book, "Custodians of Wonder," BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost ...

For Penda Diakité, art has been a pivotal part of her life for as long as she can remember. As the child of two artists – her father a ceramicist and mother a sculptor – this Malian-American is fully ...

Western countries have reduced aid and military support to Africa, prompting African nations to pivot towards the east, particularly China ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously ...

Kọ Café (pronounced “Koh”) is no stereotypical coffee shop. It’s a podcast studio, co-working and performance space, a hub of West African history, and a thriving Black-owned cultural mainstay in ...