Some 52 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to meet their basic food and nutrition needs in the upcoming ...

Southwest Africa, a long slab of coastline between Portuguese Angola and the Union of South Africa, is particularly singled out for such tactics. A League of Nations mandate awarded it to the ...

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Cardew, the British Governor of Sierra Leone noted 'the growing political consciousness of the African, and his increasing sense of his worth and autonomy.' In South West Africa (now Namibia ...

In 1910, the name was changed from South-West Africa and the Boer Republics to South Africa. The majority of South Africans live in cities, with Cape Town being the biggest, home to around 2 ...