Living with dwarfism in the Middle Ages meant facing a world shaped by superstition, spectacle, and strict social roles. In ...

In 1979, UNESCO named Elmina Castle a World Heritage Site for its central role in the transatlantic slave trade. Because of ...

First, it is vital to know that the notion of genetic inferiority comes from eugenics, a controversial field that started in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Eugenics was based on the idea that some ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

By some estimates, about 40 people—mostly fishermen—were attacked by hippos on Lake Naivasha in 2020, and as many as 14 of them died. Every year across Africa, hippos kill an estimated 500 ...

Among the clanging sounds of machinery and the smell of sawdust, Dipuo Phakathi is building something extraordinary in a male-dominated home furnishings field.

Refugee children in Kenya's Kakuma camp are turning to dance to cope with harsh conditions. Funding cuts have halved food ...

Gideon Jacobs has lived a life of the land. Farm-to-table was never a long sojourn for the barrel-chested Afrikaner, whose accent carries the history of his people. A base of Dutch, dashes of English, ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...