NAIROBI, Kenya — King Mswati III of Swaziland is an absolute monarch, so what he says goes. But over the course of his 32-year rule, he has mostly gained international attention for how he has spent ...

I had a home in Africa near the base of the looming Sebibi Rock. The Tropic of Capricorn runs across the Great Escarpment 500km to the north, and our sprawling house on a hillside close to the ...

THE king of an African country has abruptly changed his nation’s name — because he said it sounded too much like Switzerland. King Mswati III made the surprise announcement on Wednesday that the ...

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Mahlanya, Swaziland – The 300 or so pictures of “the ideal man” drawn by boys joining a male-mentoring charity in Swaziland are almost always the same. They depict a solitary and solemn figure who ...

“In traditional Swazi society,” Swaziland’s King Sobhuza II once observed, “a latecomer often gets the best cut of meat.” As Britain’s last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway ...