Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Cameroonian researcher Ambroise Wonkam, who leads the African Society of Human Genetics, said this leads to serious problems in diagnosing and treating genetic conditions. “If we don't know ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa: an Ethnographical Survey. Edited for the (South African) Inter-University Committee for African Studies by I. Schapera. Pp. xv + 453 + 24 plates.

merging African, Native American, and Creole influences into a tradition unlike any other. Super Sunday is the day when all the tribes come together, not for the tourists, not for the cameras ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...

“If you look at the map of the world and plot how many population-based studies have been done, Africa is ending up to be blank, so we’re happy that we are able to paint the African map as well,” says ...

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of ...