She was born in a mud hut in an isolated hamlet in Africa with no electricity or running water, a 10-minute hike to the nearest road. Unschooled, she was married off to a distant cousin as a teenager, ...

This blog post was written by Mpho MacChambers, ONE Strong Girl Ambassador. There is an old African proverb that says ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In my experience, it takes a village to ...

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. One thing that 16-year-old Valerie McMakin and her 11-year-old brother Wilson have learned is ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

Some novels can transport readers to a whimsical world, serving as a distraction to reality, if only for the book’s length. Then there are novels so grounded in hard truths that the reader is forced ...

On a winter’s day, a group of refugees newly arrived from Africa walks through the falling snow in a village in eastern France. Some of the 800 residents of the peaceful Alsatian commune of ...

A village of more than 400 people in the African nation of Ghana will have access to safe, clean drinking water thanks in part to the efforts of Pine-Richland High School students. The students, most ...

Monday’s fatal stabbing at the Oyutunji African Village in northern Beaufort County will likely send shockwaves across a small subculture of the U.S.: The murder victim was an internationally ...

In the fashion world, a "lookbook" is a collection of photos highlighting, say, a fashion designer's work or a fashion model. The African Lookbook has a different agenda: images that present a ...