The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.

Inside a movement.

After a non-profit’s documentary about a central African despot became the most viral video of all time, the founder had a nude nervous breakdown on the streets of San Diego. Now he’s back.

Mistakes were made by the middle-aged Americans who hoped to take over Gambia.

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

What it’s like to have your novel filmed by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.

On being held hostage by Somali pirates.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.

Two brothers divided by Central African Republic’s civil war.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

The hopes, dreams and failures of Nigeria’s commercial capital.

Kamel Daoud’s celebrated retelling of Albert Camus’s The Stranger came within two votes of winning the Prix Goncourt. It has also made him a target of radical Islamists.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

Scenes from an anger management facility.

"Mike began to curse his hands. Champion told him to calm down, that his hands were gentle, and that he was as likely brainwashed by this place as cured, something he would never admit sober. Champion suggested they try to escape; he was drunk enough, he thought, to just walk away."

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The Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a transgender woman who was imprisoned four years ago in Malawi for getting engaged to a man. Pardoned and freed, she now scrapes by living in exile in South Africa.

A longtime NGO worker on how big ideas end up hurting international aid.

How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.