In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Chinese migrants have created a lively community in the Malian capital of Bamako but the advance of Islamist militants has ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them ...

After a decade building her eponymous brand in New York, designer Tia Adeola is now relocating her entire supply chain to Nigeria. Her Fall/Winter 2025 collection, titled From Lagos with love, will ...

The Museum of West African Art is poised to give Nigeria an institution of global significance, although its most hyped attractions won’t be there. Credit...Video by Stephen Tayo For The New York ...

The Indian Ocean must be understood not as a boundary, but as a shared inheritance, a commons that anchors Africa’s economic emancipation and geopolitical autonomy. Anything less is a betrayal of ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Abuja, Nov. 5, GNA – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), founded 50 years ago, is no longer fit for purpose in its current form as “an elite club” of political leaders, ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Africa’s drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict ...

ChòpnBlok is Houston at its most flavorful. Founded by Ope Amosu, a Houston-born James Beard semifinalist, the West African pop-up and food hall hit turned into a vibrant Montrose destination last ...