The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing agreements in Jerusalem in 2016.
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Transboundary climate risks can cross borders, continents and oceans to affect communities on the other side of the world. Africa’s new roadmap seeks to address this.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel.
Charles Helm
The first ancient DNA sequences from peoples of the medieval Swahili civilization push aside colonialist stories and reveal genetic connections from the past.
Kenyans protest against police extrajudicial killings in Nairobi in December 2022.
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East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Untitled by Ugandan artist Peter Mulindwa.
James Muriuki courtesy Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute