Explore books that truly capture the essence of Lagos, offering a deeper, more authentic experience than any film could ever provide.

A reticulated python found in Indonesia broke the Guinness World Record for the longest, scientifically measured wild snake ...

ARE you not entertained? You will be if you are at a gladiators’ colosseum with no queues and no crowds for just three quid.

MIT professor and author Joshua Bennett speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new memoir and cultural history book, "The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good scholarly work there’s been, despite everything. As we do every year, we ...

The state is focusing on animals doing the most harm. Ones taken off the 'Dirty Dozen' list include chameleons and the Cuban tree frog.

Peter Venison, age 90, who was Sol Kerzner’s right-hand man throughout much of the hotel maverick’s sterling career, has won the inaugural International Gambling Book Awards, for his bestselling local ...

Generations of historians have represented Augustine of Hippo as the single most important figure in Christianity’s transition from antiquity to the medieval world. He is usually seen as an ...

Sarah Namirembe, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize along with co-authors, China Scherz (Notre Dame ...

For more than 40 years, Beverly and Dereck Joubert have lived with, photographed and filmed African wildlife. Their images bear witness not just to the majesty of life on the continent, but also the ...

Everyone's focused on what the book says about the RFK Jr. scandal. But one of its more bizarre elements, is what it doesn't say. Reading time 5 minutes Journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s new book, American ...

As African book publishers build a literary ecosystem of their own, they say they're fighting a stubborn perception problem, with too many international publishers treat the continent's 54 countries ...