Africa

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Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
Artifact from Benin
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
Marvel character Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Genocide and Justice in Rwanda
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires
Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.
Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle
Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
A child working in a Congolese gold mine in 2009.
A New Congo Crisis?
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
Sheikha Mozah
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
Haile Selassie in 1942
Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.
Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987
Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)
Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting