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Tovia Smith is an award-winning NPR National Correspondent based in Boston, who's spent more than three decades covering news around New England and beyond.

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

The lack of hard currency is a severe problem for the southern African nation.

It is estimated that two million children under the age of 15 live with HIV and most of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. On World AIDS Day, Pamela Barnes, President and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, talks about the challenges facing children and parents with HIV.

The grass pea is one: a hardy crop that can thrive in a drought. An agriculturist is spearheading an effort to diversify what farmers grow as climate change threatens staples like corn and wheat.

NFL quarterback Michael Vick plans to plead guilty to federal dog fighting charges next week. The case has ignited a spirited public debate. There are questions as to whether his support among some African-Americans is simply due to race, based on a belief that Vick is just the latest high-profile black man to be vilified in the press. Hear a debate on this issue.

Mbue's novel was inspired in part by her own experiences growing up in Cameroon. Set in a fictional African village in the 1980s, it follows a group of villagers who take on an American oil company.

A tropical wave that has moved off the coast of Africa since Thursday has a very good chance of strengthening through next week.

South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir combines traditional African gospel and Western Christian music to form a rich sound. In a visit to NPR, the group performs songs from a new CD, Voices from Heaven.

Acclaimed Ugandan-born singer and instrumentalist Samite talks about how Africa's child soldiers inspired much of his latest CD, Embalasasa, and about his broader mission to help young African victims of war and those infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.