The 1960s were known for ”sword-and-sandal movies” — splashy epics like Ben-Hur and Spartacus that centered Roman Republic ...

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and ...

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Rob Reiner may not have been an auteur on the level of contemporaries like Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg, but you’d be hard pressed to find a director whose filmography had a bigger, broader ...

The Hallmark Channel is far and away the best place to find the corniest, cheesiest holiday movies. And during the Christmas season, that’s just what many people are looking for. They want to light a ...

Nigeria's state oil company NNPC hit an oil production level of 355,000 barrels per day earlier this month, its highest since 1989. This upbeat news came a few weeks days after the company — which the ...

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Nigeria, African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday condemned an attempted military takeover in Benin Republic. They gave the condemnation as confusion and ...

The holiday season is here, which means it's time to grab a sweet treat, get cozy on the couch and turn on the latest Hallmark Christmas movie. Hallmark movies are, for many, the perfect light viewing ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...