A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder about African genocide, global health, and his new book “Strength in What Remains.”

A young African economist says “no thanks” to aid for Africa — that it hurts the continent. We’ll stage a debate.

Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”

U.S. warships, Russian warships, and the bold pirates of the Somali coast. We look at high stakes piracy on the high seas.

Powerful Nigerian-born writer Uwem Akpan sees Africa through the eyes of its children — slavery, slums, and all.

The travel posters from Kenya are all “Out of Africa” beauty, safari paradise shots and handsome Masai tribesmen with their red robes and spears. And for decades, Kenya was held up as East Africa’s great hope for democracy and development.
But in the last month, after a disputed — observers say stolen — presidential election, the [...]