The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.

Indonesian villages have been rated among the most attractive local areas in the world, offering nature, authentic cultures and local life. Indonesia is set to develop and promote rural tourism in its ...

Go into any rural African village and one of the major status symbols is a radio. An exciting soccer game might be playing on a hazy black and white TV set complete with rabbit ears and powered by a ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

Four years ago, Ghana launched a campaign to welcome people from the African diaspora back to the continent of their ancestors. The country has even created a settlement offering free land to ...

In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become ...

BUSHENYI, Uganda--Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity. When ...

This blog post was written by Mpho MacChambers, ONE Strong Girl Ambassador. There is an old African proverb that says ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In my experience, it takes a village to ...

A TikTok video showed a South African mother performing a traditional ritual to protect her crops from a storm, sparking ...