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Tthe non-profit group Africa Access, working to ensure children have access to authoritative works on African life and issues, gave their annual award to Allan Strattan for his children's book, Chanda's Secrets.

When Edward Perkins went to South Africa as the first black U.S. ambassador to the then apartheid nation, he recalls its leader angrily telling him to stay out of the country's affairs. Perkins refused to heed the warning and visited black townships.

A shark attacks a surfer, but he survives unscathed.

A new compilation of contemporary African music, mostly hip-hop, focuses largely on immigration. The songs describe the allure of life abroad in Europe or America, but also touch on many of the pitfalls.

A modest new documentary from the West African nation of Cameroon has been getting rave reviews at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals. Sisters In Law follows the saga of two female attorneys taking on entrenched attitudes to find justice for women.

A widespread drought is killing the livelihoods of pastoral nomads in the region known as the Horn of Africa. Cows, goats and other livestock have all died due to the water shortage. The devastation poses the question of whether the lifestyle of pastoralists -- who move between Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia foraging for food and water for their herds -- can be sustained.

Now that the deadly bird flu virus has spread to poultry in northern Nigeria, experts say it is almost certain to spread further in Africa. Nigeria's poultry population is estimated at 140 million birds, and the nation appears ill-equipped to stamp out the virus.

Swarms of desert locusts many miles long descended on West Africa this summer and fall -- the worst invasion of these voracious pests in more than 15 years.

Clegg's new album, Human, is his first to be released in the U.S. in 17 years. He says that, even with Apartheid so far in the past, residents of his home country are still learning what it means to be South African.

Young entrepreneurs in Africa say they're leading a tech movement from the ground up. They think technology can solve social ills. But critics wonder if digital fixes can make a dent.