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Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, won a fifth consecutive title at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 3 August. The Conversation Africa asked Michael Gbemisola Aina, a technical commissioner of the Nigeria Basketball Federation who has researched basketball development in Nigeria, about what the win…

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-west Africa. It lies south of Morocco, north-east of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. It was formerly known as Spanish Sahara, until Spain’s withdrawal in 1975. The region has since been claimed primarily by Morocco and by the Polisario Front, an independence movement…

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record?

Sentebale lost donations after a highly-publicised feud between the Duke of Sussex and Sophie Chandauka

Other lives: Doctor and founder of the palliative care charity Hospice Africa

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.

South Africa finds itself in a dangerous historical moment. The world order is under threat from its own primary architect. The US wants to remain the premier global political power without taking on any of its responsibilities.

This is the first time the prestigious races will come to Africa