The best way forward for South Africa is not Afrikaner or African nationalism but what Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff ...

In our series of letters from African journalists ... How to keep a multitude of ethnic groups united and satisfied? This was the greatest hurdle Nigeria faced in the first decade of its ...

The Fulani, known in Mali as the Peulh, are a largely Muslim ethnic group of semi-nomadic herders. Numbering at least 38 million, they are spread across West Africa, from Senegal in the west to ...