“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

A wiseman next door in Tanzania, retired President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, advised that if ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Given his standing as the most refined historian of the time, it was unsurprising that Ogot was headhunted from the ...

Elias Jabbe attended and photographed the 2025 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show – referred to by organizer Consumer Technology Association as “The Most Powerful Tech Event in the World” – ...

No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, but rather his wily South African analog, Jacob Zuma, whose tenure as president from 2009 to 2018 presented an existential threat to the continent’s most solid ...

The US withdrawal from the WHO will have a severe impact on HIV, polio and many other health programmes on the African ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

But now, visitors to the land are discovering that there is more than just the majestic animals in Pilanesberg. There’s its majestic people too. This is the homeland of the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela. THE ...