South African photographer who depicted apartheid dies

Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday night, the ruling party said Monday....

New Nigeria museum honors late Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti

Chika Oduah

theGRIO REPORT - Kingston, Jamaica has the Bob Marley Museum. Memphis, Tennessee has Elvis Presley’s Graceland. For the first time ever, fans of the Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti can visit the Kalakuta Museum in Lagos, Nigeria...

Obama: No confusion over response to Libya attack

Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is pushing back against critics who say there was confusion within his administration following the deadly attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya...

Colonial sins return to haunt former world powers in Kenya

NBC News' Ian Johnston, Nancy Ing and Ploy Bunlueslip

LONDON - It is a court case that could reverberate round the world: Three elderly Kenyans are suing the U.K. government for torture inflicted by the colonial regime during the African country's struggle for independence...

Special to premiere on Oprah school's 1st class

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - The Oprah Winfrey Network will premiere a television special on October 14 following the journey of the first graduating class from Oprah's leadership academy...

Alek Wek raises awareness of refugees' plight

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - Now free from the specter of war, those returning to the newly christened South Sudan (split off from Sudan in the north through the treaty) are facing fresh perils. Wek's retraced her journey back home to South Sudan in July of 2012 to draw attention to their plight...

Hopes abound as Ethiopia takes new prime minister

Kirubel Tadesse, Associated Press

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday in the U.S. ally’s first peaceful change of

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Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of US prisoners in Gambia

theGrio

Rev. Jesse Jackson added to his long list of diplomatic accomplishments this week by securing the release of two Americans who had been imprisoned in Gambia for decades...

Zimbabwe businessman spends millions to send Africans to HBCU

Kunbi Tinuoye

theGRIO REPORT - The telecom tycoon has committed $6.4 million in scholarship dollars to send 40 African freshmen to Morehouse, over a four-year period....

Mandela's daughter Zindzi promotes road safety

David Mac Dougall, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events...