The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are about an increasingly confident and knowledgeable assertion of African capacities to give not on...

In May of 1953, somewhere in the vast desert stretches near Kingman, Arizona, something is said to have fallen from the sky, and the official record has never fully explained what witnesses and later investigators claim took place that night. Military units reportedly moved with unusual speed, roads were sealed, and recovery teams worked under darkness while civilians were kept away from a remote impact site, leaving behind rumors that would echo through decades of secrecy and speculation....