Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

Africa's share of world trade has fallen from about 4 percent in 1980 to less than 2 percent today. A country's export performance is influenced by its natural endowments, by exogenous factors, and by ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

The instability has sucked in neighbouring countries to devastating effect – notoriously in the 1990s when two huge conflicts, dubbed Africa's World Wars, resulted in the deaths of millions of people.