Malawi’s vice-president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, died at the age of 51 in a plane crash. In…

Rob Burrow in action for Leeds Rhinos in 2017. (Gareth Copley/Getty Images) English Rugby…

Barry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking excavations in the abandoned capital of a…

Paulin Hountondji, a Benin philosopher whose criticism of colonial-era anthropology helped transform Africa’s intellectual life,…

Kent Campbell, a key figure in the global fight against malaria – particularly in Africa,…

Henry Rono, a Kenyan distance runner who was unable to run until he was six…

Khaled Nezzar, a shrewd, outspoken Algerian general and former defense minister who played a central…

Edward Jay Epstein, an iconoclastic author whose deeply researched books challenged conventional wisdom on controversies…

Mbongeni Ngema, a South African playwright, lyricist and director whose stage works, including the Tony-nominated…

Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer known in Burkina Faso as “the man who conquered the desert”…