Village Games That Shaped Communities Traditional African games are powerful ... The Hausa people of Northern Nigeria practice Dambe, an ancient form of boxing where fighters bind their dominant ...

Ancient African proverbs offer wisdom ... Though Somé passed away in 2021, his interpretation of the village burning serves as a reminder to Black people about the work required today and into ...

Across the continent, thousands of Fulani people are holding fast to their ancient customs—while reshaping their traditions ...

When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In ...

The beads most probably originated in eastern Africa around 50,000 years ago and made their way southwards, carried perhaps by people or just the knowledge of how to make them. Whether traded or ...

By the turn of the second millennium, Swahili people embraced ... including 17 African scholars and multiple members of the Swahili community, we’ve now published the first ancient DNA sequences ...

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by UCL researchers. Published in Science Advances ...

In a small West African village, a man named Momolu Duwalu Bukele had a compelling dream. A stranger approached him with a sacred book and then taught him how to write by tracing a stick on the ground ...

She gathers sacks of the hard-shelled fruit from the ancient trees and sells them on ... Tens of thousands of rural people like Bhitoni have emerged to feed the need. The African Baobab Alliance, with ...