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Octogenarian athletes are not completely unheard-of in ultrarunning, but Maros Mosehla's speed has made him a local legend. On June 11, Maros Mosehla lined up with 16,000 other runners on [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Octogenarian athletes are not completely unheard-of in ultrarunning, but Maros Mosehla's speed has made him a local legend. On June 11, Maros Mosehla lined up with [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Contributor Abstract: Patrons of Khartoum's Downtown Gallery have collected money for Sudanese artists, joining a movement of thousands of small-scale aid projects. Afraa Ahmed left with [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Contributor Abstract: Twenty years of fighting in eastern Congo has forced more than 5 million people from their homes. Local residents are cautious about a cease-fire [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown In the dying days of South Africa's apartheid regime, pioneering Black runners helped transform the Comrades Marathon into the race it is today, one that reflects [...]

In the dying days of South Africa's apartheid regime, pioneering Black runners helped transform the Comrades Marathon into the race it is today, one that reflects the country around it. [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Contributor Abstract: South Africa's decision to expel almost 200,000 Zimbabwean nationals has taken on outsize symbolism. When Petunia Sibanda came to South Africa from Zimbabwe in [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown and Jennifer Hassan JOHANNESBURG - Buzz about the party had been building all week. End-of-semester exams were finishing at high schools in East London, a coastal [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown JOHANNESBURG - For three years, South Africans watched live on television as a massive corruption inquiry took aim at some of its post powerful people. The [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: South Sudan attempts to complete its first national census amid a fragile peace and runs into extraordinary setbacks along the way. When South [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: A Black-run canoe club in Soweto, South Africa, has given thousands of kids a passion they might never have otherwise found. As a [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer, Nick Roll Correspondent Abstract: The world today -- shaped by a pandemic and shifting social values -- is far different from when the Peace [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: COVID-19's economic toll in South Africa has been severe. But stokvels, traditional saving clubs, are helping some people pull through. From the moment [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: South Africa's jacaranda trees are iconic signs of spring. Their spectacular brief blooms have always made good symbolism - particularly this year. One [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Purity Malinga is the first woman elected to lead the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, reflecting a long struggle over women's role in [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: COVID-19 lockdowns are keeping many people at home, from New York to Johannesburg. For some, it's the perfect time to foster or adopt [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Somaliland's women are building gyms, joining leagues, and running races, showing their neighbors they can be both devout Muslims and athletes. It had [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: COVID-19 lockdowns are turning many of us into couch potatoes, but not all. How about an at-home marathon? It was one of the [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Hargeisa Cultural Center, founded by Jama Musse Jama in Somaliland, is more than a library. How do you build a national archive for [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Locust swarms devastating East Africa have put 20 million people at risk of going hungry. But how did it reach this point? The [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Gambia's case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice is historic, and not only because it may mark a turning point to [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Scripps National Spelling Bee includes a small number of international contestants. This year, Nadia Chelpang Mashoud of Ghana will be among them. Empanoply. [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Congo's Ebola survivors are often mourning loved ones lost to the same disease. Yet many find a sense of purpose caring for other [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Rollerblading is more than sport in Beni. Here amid eastern Congo's conflict and Ebola outbreak, it brings a fierce sense of freedom -- [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Petina Gappah's 'Out of Darkness, Shining Light' is the latest example of a new generation of African novelists reinventing historical fiction. For more [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Archaeologist Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann leads a team excavating Christiansborg Castle, a slave fort in Ghana where many of the team's ancestors worked. [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Uyinene Mrwetyana's rape and murder have reawakened outrage about violence against women in South Africa. But will it lead to change, protesters ask? [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Africa reporter Ryan Lenora Brown spruced up her French at Middlebury's summer language school. But the most important lesson wasn't in a dictionary. [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer, Mxolisi Ncube Contributor Abstract: Robert Mugabe rose to power with all the hope of a liberator. But his 37-year reign over Zimbabwe ended in [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: In South Africa, rampant poverty and inequality have helped to foment contempt for foreign-born business owners. For days, the warnings had been slowly [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: A South African court has banned many displays of the country's former flag, ruling that they constituted hate speech, discrimination, and harassment. The [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Bunny chow may sound like it's for rabbits -- or made of them -- but neither is true. It's an iconic South African [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: The Botswana High Court overturned a colonial-era law against homosexuality Tuesday. LGBTQ activists hope it will set a precedent for the region. When [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Teff grain is a staple in Ethiopia, used in the spongy injera bread now enjoyed around the world. But its global rise comes [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: South Africa's president announced 50 percent of his new cabinet would be women. Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has led pushing women's rights. [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Mandarin Chinese is the world's most widely spoken language, and South Africa's government wants more students to speak it. Not everyone agrees. Fifteen-year-old [...]

Byline: Christopher Bendana Correspondent, Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Carbon offsets are a key part of industrialized nations' climate action plans. But what do they look like on the [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Ms. Ashenafi the Supreme Court's first female chief, one of many women named to Ethiopia's top positions. Two [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Disappointed with the pace of change, most young voters skipped an election that will give South Africa its next president. For Jabu Simelane, [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: The discovery of gold and diamonds transformed South Africa's trajectory. Today the industry is in decline, and voters are hungry for solutions. On [...]

Byline: Kristen Chick Correspondent, Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Western museums have wrestled for decades with whether to return objects taken from Africa. A new report and controversial plan [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: The Fekat Circus, like Addis Ababa itself, is many things at once: a professional troupe, a community circus school, and daily dose of [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Kenyan photographer Priya Ramrakha (1935-1968), one of the first African photographers to be hired by Time and Life magazine, captured a nuanced insider's [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: In the week and a half since Cyclone Idai, a GoFundMe has raised more than $80,000 for relief, much of it from Zimbabweans [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya is challenging proposed rules to require female athletes who naturally have unusually high levels of testosterone to artificially [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: When Nigerians go to the polls on Feb. 16, just a sliver of the candidates will be women. What would it take for [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: On the surface, a concentration of women in high places looks like a win for gender equality. Observers may doubt the intentions of [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Staff writer Abstract: President Omar al-Bashir's government has been rocked by weeks of protests. His regime, once treated like a pariah state, has become an important [...]