Under the direction of Portuguese missionaries, large quantities of ivory sourced from their East African colonies came to be ...

The Hanukkah story took place when Jerusalem was ruled by the Seleucid kings, Greek-speaking successors of Alexander the ...

These remarkable sites serve as living memory-keepers of the Afro-origin men and women who once arrived in the Indian ...

Kwanza means first fruits in Swahili and refers to the joy people experience during the harvest season. The holiday ...

Hate is never acceptable, nor is it ever justified. Sadly, history is punctuated with examples of hate-driven occurrences that, in many instances, altered the trajectories of entire societies.

When challenged to teach the whole Torah on one foot, the Jewish sage Hillel replied, “What is hateful to you, do not do to ...

The happy accident of yogurt probably came about by the fermentation of milk left out in the heat, most likely somewhere in ...

Founded in 1384, the Bamoun kingdom tells an extraordinary history. A Cameroonian archaeologist visits the new museum of the kings.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

Recently, a team of researchers published their study on a medieval Nubian tattoo in Antiquity. The researchers conducted a ...