Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic ...

Cultural traditions: different cultures have unique naming ceremony, customs such as African often involve traditional ...

Everyone has seen the classic horror film where the token Black person—specifically the Black guy—dies first. But Black ...

In the Luo tribe of East Africa, widows follow a unique tradition of sleeping beside their husband’s dead body. The ritual ...

Long before Romans and kings, ancient tribes shaped the land and vanished into legend. Their stories, hidden in earth and stone, reveal a Britain few have ever imagined. The Snags That Could Prevent ...

Residents of the West African city of Timbuktu smuggled out tens of thousands of priceless manuscripts over a decade ago as al-Qaida-linked extremists swept into this part of Mali.

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Ubuntu is a term derived from the meaning of humanity’s humility among the Nguni and Bantu tribes and their languages. The ...

A 65-foot-tall mudbrick temple known as the Deffufa was constructed some 4,000 years ago as the spiritual center of the ancient Nubian capital of Kerma in northern Sudan. As the Nile slices through ...

Acrux (Alpha Crucis): Lying at the foot of the Southern Cross, it’s made up of two bright, young, blue-hued stars. Mimosa (Beta Crucis): Located on the Cross’ short arm, it’s also young and blue in ...

The Idoma and Ondo traditional rulers meet to forge a cultural diversity partnership, strengthening historical ties and ...

Neanderthals didn’t go extinct in a blaze of conflict—new research shows they may have quietly vanished through interbreeding ...