New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional ...

A bestselling memoir and manifesto by Canadian writer and journalist Omar El Akkad is among this year’s finalists for the U.S.-based National Book Award. The U.S.-based annual literary award, valued ...

EDSON Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the second black person in the country ...