Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...

Many regional initiatives emphasize cross-border integration and development. The African Union's Agenda 2063 , a framework for socio-economic transformation, is one.

In Africa, transnational parks have redefined state borders for wildlife. They could do more, radically decolonizing the continent. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier.

It is time for a new Africa beyond borders and boundaries. Continental integration must be the primary agenda of this year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.

African borders are products of colonialism and conquest by European powers. In 1884, European powers met in Berlin to subdivide Africa into spheres of influence for their profit.

African national borders, and conflicts that arise from them, are often blamed on the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885. But a new paper in the Cambridge University Press argues that the majority of ...

RFI journalists Ollia Horton and Melissa Chemam take us to the heart of two major art fairs: Paris’s Also Known As Africa and London’s 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair.