They were also the first rulers in Africa to embrace Christianity and make it the kingdom's official religion. This history is little known, both in Africa and elsewhere, because a lot of ...

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of ...

African traditional religions produced no written works, but derived their authority from oral history, custom and practice, and the power of priests, kings and others gifted in dealing with ...

Yolanda Pierce, a scholar on Black religion, tells PW her new book, ‘The Wounds are the Witness,’ explores how learning about ...

This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments ...

History had Jacob Ajayi ... Rodney taught outside official classrooms on Europe developing Africa. Religion and philosophy were Mbiti’s intellectual war fronts. He distinguished himself by ...

History had Jacob Ajayi ... Rodney taught outside official classrooms on Europe developing Africa. Religion and philosophy were Mbiti’s intellectual war fronts. He distinguished himself by ...