Uganda has one of the highest rates of exclusion from education in the world; around 20 percent of primary school children ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

Ty Batchelor and his wife, Sally, of Decatur, were about to adopt two boys from the east African country of Uganda a few ...

In the novel We, the Kindling, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek weaves together stories of women who were abducted as children by a ...

Our local languages have played a vital role in shaping a culture-centric education system in East Africa. Uganda’s thematic-based curriculum, for instance, relies heavily on indigenous languages like ...

Top of the pops is Arabic, spoken by some 150 million people across the continent. It’s the liturgical language of Islam and holds cultural significance across North Africa, including Egypt, Sudan, ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

Buruli Cultural Leader Isabaruli Mwogezi (2nd right), joined by other officials, cuts a cake to mark the launch of Ruruli-Lunyala language church services at St. Andrews Church of Uganda in ...

Uganda's Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, has signed a landmark agreement with the Japanese government to reconstruct the Karuma Bridge. The deal, worth approximately shs121 billion (4.939 billion ...

Knowing the type of love language you and your partner use can help foster a deeper connection. The five love languages are words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, receiving gifts ...

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