Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society and has evolved over time. While traditional ...

Muslims who killed a 70-year-old Catholic woman in Nigeria on March 2 were motivated by a traditional healer’s falsehood that ...

Teams from across the continent, created to boost the health of older women, face off in a tournament. The African Development Bank president tells the BBC how poverty shaped his world views.

By late 2002, 12 out of Nigeria's 36 states had done so. The new laws impose segregation of the sexes and traditional punishments for the hudud offences. Women have been banned from working ...