A number of reports have called South Africa a politically polarized society. This may seem uncontroversial, given the ...

SemaforNduati.githaeWikimedia Commons UNESCO is updating its 60-year old African history curriculum with new volumes that ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

United Airlines recently announced the largest expansion of its flight network in Africa. The carrier dropped the news in ...

Who writes history? It depends on who you read. Dr. Bright Alozie of Portland State University considers himself a historian ...

Patricia Kilby-Robb, a retired educator, gives a tour of the James Wilson Kilby African American Museum on Shenandoah Shores ...

Numerous other African communities too, have produced pottery in large quantities throughout history. Pottery from the Iron Age has been found in Zimbabwe and it is heartening that a team of UZ ...

He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials' wooden coffins ... a significant source of foreign currency for the ...