From left, Emir Price, Zariyah Perry and Sinclair Freeman star in Soul Rep Theatre's production of "The African Company Presents Richard III." Carlyle Brown's 1988 play is based on the true story of ...

Disney movies have a way of making us all long for a fictional, enchanted kingdom. The settings are always so magical an ...

In the early 1980s, Gladys led a five-member team that was programming the IBM 7030 computer, popularly known as Stretch. She ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

In a dream, a mysterious voice calls out in the night to King Alantako, warning of "chaos" ahead for the young Nigerian ...

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

While a few ex-Rhodesian military desperados established the army in Transkei and it attracted a sprinkling of Ghanaian emigres fleeing serial instability in their West African country, no African ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

The Americans have an airbase at Baledogle, north-west of Mogadishu ... The Horn of Africa needs to be braced for change. Mary Harper has written two books about Somalia, including Everything ...

In the heart of West Africa lies a treasure that has woven communities together for centuries: cotton. This humble fibre has travelled from the fields of dedicated farmers to global fashion runways, ...

In The Gambia, youth play a vital role in preserving and perpetuating cultural traditions by actively participating in communal activities. They learn through oral instruction and observation, and ...