The UNESCO Courier has been continually concerned by Africa and UNESCO’s contributions to peace and development on this continent are particularly emphasized.

In various issues and articles, The UNESCO Courier invites you to discover Africa’s natural splendor through its culture, its civilizations and its people.

Special issues on Africa

• Africa's lost past 1959
• Africa's wild life in peril 1961
• The face of new Africa 1961
• African exodus a dramatic problem 150,000 refugees 1963
• Africa and the African genius 1967
• Apartheid 1967
• "Portuguese" Africe the struggle for independance 1973
• The changing face of Africa 1977
• Southern Africa at grips with racism 1977
• Africa and its history 1979
• Rediscovering the African past 1984
• Apartheid the beginning of the end 1992

 Articles on Africa

• Highlights of African project 1948
• Noted film expert sees challenge in Africa 1948
• Health centre on wheels for French Nigeria 1950
• Culture lives through exchange, not by forced loans: the lesson of Abossolo Simion, African craftsman and artist 1951
• "Associated projects": an international fundamental education advisory service 1951
• More books for Africans 1953
• Schools that travel on camelback 1953
• Gold Coast: where the Education Ministry supervises work on rice fields, roads and bridges (Ghana) 1953
• A Senegalese village refuses to go to sleep; Adventure in education in French West Africa; Une Nouvelle expérience éducative en A.O.F.; Una Nueva experiencia educativa en el Africa Occidental Francesa 1953
• Possession' dances: a treatment for mental illness 1956
• The Sleep that kills 1956
• A Woman's life in an African village 1957
• A Woman's life in an African village; part 2: Business affairs, extensive freedom, raising a family 1957
• Nigeria's young ambassador-in-art 1958
• The Untamed Zambezi strikes back 1958
• Ede and the Moon Festival; 'the nightmare of the tropics' 1958
• Ancient chroniclers of West Africa's past; journeys of discovery through the 'country of the black people' 1959
• The Rediscovery of Africa 1959
• Central Africa's 'saucepan special' 1959
• Africa's lost past; the startling rediscovery of a continent 1959
• Bouba and Jacques; the birth of a dialogue between Africa and Europe 1960
• Pitoa; pilot school in a Cameroon village 1960
• Poaching; the shocking slaughter of Africa's wild life 1961
• New schools for Africa 1961
• The Changing face of Africa 1961
• An African looks at the world 1961
• The Face of new Africa 1961
• Africa's wild life in peril 1961
• Nubia's Christian age 1961
• Nature's fight for life at Ngorongoro Crater; The Drama of Serengeti 1961
• Two men and a 'flying zebra'; The Drama of Serengeti 1961
• Wild life as a world asset 1961
• The Awakening African cinema 1962
• African metamorphosis 1963
• African exodus; the dramatic problem of 150,000 refugees 1963
• Africa; The Latitudes of beauty 1965
• A Continent in quest of a publishing industry; a Unesco survey in Africa 1965
• It is still not too late... 1965
• Apartheid in South Africa 1965
• Sanctuaries astride frontiers; Unesco and nature conservation 1965
• Ancient scripts from the heart of Africa 1966
• New patterns of transport for Africa 1966
• Cracks in a continent; probing mysteries of the earth's crust in the rift valleys of Africa 1966
• Apartheid in South Africa 1967
• Today's schools prepare tomorrow's African scientists 1967
• Trends in present-day African literature; Present-day writers of tropical Africa 1967
• Africa 1967; independent States 1967
• The Protection of Africa's artistic heritage 1967
• African architecture old and new 1967
• The Scientific study of Africa's history 1967
• Birth of a new Africa 1967
• The Art of African pulleys 1969
• The Rediscovery of Africa 1969
• Inequality before the law in South Africa 1971
• The Independence of Africa and cultural decolonization 1971
• The Vibrant intensity of traditional African music 1972
• Our African ancestors 1972
• Geography of heart disease 1972
• The Struggle for independence of 'Portuguese' Africa; 15 million Africans in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (Bissau) in search of a new identity 1973
• Drought over Africa 1973
• The Dichotomy of African music 1973
• Africa in the stress of technology 1973
• Makonde art: African genesis in ebony 1973
• 'Portuguese' Africa: the struggle for independence 1973
• Education and discrimination in the Portuguese territories of Africa 1973
• Unesco aid for African liberation movements 1973
• The Role of culture in the battle for independence 1973
• The Well of knowledge; how a school's solar pump transformed a Mauritanian oasis;Africa plugs in to the sun 1974
• False prophets of doom; an Ethiopian educator challenges the idea that Africa needs population control 1974
• The Drama of 6,000 kilometres of Africa's Sahel 1975
• For African women equal rights are not enough; the real task is to rethink the role of men in present-day society 1975
• African art, where the hand has ears 1976
• Africa rediscovers its cultural roots 1977
• Rural newspapers in Africa 1977
• The Blacks in Latin America; Africa's imprint on the art and life of another continent 1977
• School is other people; for African children the village community is one big family of teachers 1978
• African medicinal plants under the microscope; Unesco and the basic chemistry of natural products 1979
• Africa: a new look from the inside 1980
• Women and apartheid: black South African women stand on the lowest rung of the ladder of oppression 1980
• Solar power for the Sahel: a Unesco feasibility study 1981
• The Impact on black Africa; The World of Islam 1981
• An African approach 1981
• The Plight of Africa's five million refugees 1981
• The Child-hero in African folktales 1982
• The Eternal return; in Africa old age is a privileged moment in the endless circle of life 1982
• The Shameful record 1983
• Ethnocide 1983
• Waters of life 1983
• Uncommon heritage 1983
• The New nomads 1983
• The Seeds of wrath; what future for Africa's silent majority? 1983
• Africa: the changing scene 1983
• Coastal and island civilizations of Africa; Civilizations of the sea 1983
• UNESCO, the United Nations and South Africa 1983
• Africa: the hunger belt 1984
• Psychology in Black Africa 1984
• What next? A world panorama of back-up materials for new literates 1984
• Where there's a will; changing societies and motivation to learn 1984
• Retracing the caravan routes of East Africa; from Kilwa to Zimbabwe 1984
• North Africa's great Roman road; from Alexandria to Gibraltar 1984
• Africa: the images that must not fade 1984
• Shaka the Great 1985
• Africa's generation gap 1985
• Women under apartheid: 'a triple oppression' 1985
• African archives and the oral tradition 1985
• Drought over Africa; the eleven worst-stricken countries 1985
• Let the past serve the future 1985
• African first nights 1985
• Tongues that span the centuries 1986
• The Blacks in Latin America 1986
• The Shocking slaughter of Africa's wild life 1986
• Apartheid: the shameful record 1986
• The African heritage 1986
• The Human factor in African development 1986
• New nations of Africa 1986
• A Grain revolution; the impact of imported rice on millet-based African civilizations 1987
• Into the heart of Africa 1987
• The Development crisis in Africa 1988
• Towards the scientific re-awakening of Africa; dependence that is detrimental to progress 1988
• African cinema; a young and relatively unknown art 1988
• Shaka Zulu, a living legend 1989
• The Middle East and North Africa: the future of the family 1989
• Africa's 'wonder weed' 1989
• Africa: lines of descent 1989
• Mollusc money 1990
• Interview (with) Sembene Ousmane, poet of the African cinema 1990
• Senegal: the price of a free press 1990
• The International African Institute: a 'hunger for books' 1990
• Africa: disturbing trends 1990
• African history finds its voice 1990
• 'No one will stop us...' 1990
• African hospitality: a dying tradition? 1990
• Interview with Manu Dibango 1991
• Africa's lost generation 1991
• Play and the sacred in Africa 1991
• Disturbing rhythms 1991
• Promise and uncertainty 1992
• Black Africa's open societies 1992
• Migrant Africa 1992
• The Forgotten ones 1993
• The Liquid of the gods 1993
• In search of a new language 1993
• Africa: the healer's art 1993
• Africa: the power of speech 1993
• Togo: going by the book 1994
• Africa: learning to manage the desert 1994
• An Authentic picture 1994
• The Tunis Declaration: regional meeting for Africa 1994
• The Vanishing African herdsman 1994
• Listening to Africa 1995
• Africa's invisible women 1995
• The African cinema in crisis 1995
• An Inspired invention 1995
• South Africa: leaving apartheid behind 1995
• Africa's women muralists 1996
• A Tradition of cross-border trade 1996
• Men of few words: interview with Christophe Wondji 1996
• Africa, a fresh start 1996
• East Africa: silent partners 1997
• Words have no legs, yet they walk 1997
• A Language of its own 1997
• Enterprise in Africa 1997
• Africa's video alternative 1998
• Last train to El Dorado? 1998
• Ending apartheid in education 1998
• South Africa: puppets in prison 1998
• Rock art of sub-Saharan Africa: a thumbnail guide 1998
• Africa and the world 1998
• Africa: the breath of life 1998
• Music from South Africa 1998
• Africa and the world 1998
• Making a little go a long way 1998
• South Africa: quandaries of compromise 1999
• South Africa: blending tradition and change 1999
• The Sheltering screen 1999
• South Africa: water for everyone 1999
• African youth makes a takeover bid 1999
• South Africa: the race for portable qualifications 2000
• Tell me how you dance and I'll tell you who you are 2000
• Moving Africa with a dance rhythm 2000
• Mama Africa meets the kwaito generation 2000
• Africa: cell phones for citizenship 2000
• South Africa: a strategic ascent 2000
• African museums on a meet-the-people mission 2000
• John Abbott, South Africa's city stitcher 2000
• South Africa: beyond exclusion 2001
• Sotigui Kouyaté: the wise man of the stage 2001
• Black Africa: ethnic hatred is not inevitable 2001
• Taking the dress 2001
• The Rise and fall of the South African six-pack 2001
• Tales of white elephants in South Africa's parks 2001
• Mixing sweat with earth 2001
• When girls go missing from the classroom 2001
• Africa: the radio scene tells all 2001
• Being on alert 2001
• African scholars: too poor to be free 2001
• Averting conflict in the Nile Basin 2003
• New tracks where the rhinos tread 2003
• Cape Town: garden wonderland in the midst of urban sprawl 2005
• For multilingual education in Africa 2007
• Access to information... journalists come first 2008
• En cette terre oubliée de dieu 2008
• Restoring Africa's dignity 2008
• Saving starfish 2009
• Kenya: burning sun and dusty soil 2009
• Preaching in the wilderness or banking on the future? 2009
• Gender equality: a development imperative 2010
• Studying chemistry in Ethiopia 2011
• Touki Bouki's new life: an interview with Souleymane Cissé 2011
• Crime without punishment 2011
• Patrimonito in Togo 2011
• Child soldiers: a new life ahead 2011