As South Africa celebrates Freedom Day, this A-Z exploration reveals the myriad reasons to cherish this vibrant nation, from ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split ...

Pope Leo XIV spent 11 days in Africa from April 13–23 and visited Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.

The body of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu still hasn’t been buried because of a feud over his funeral and nearly a ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

This article highlights key South African literary works that capture the nation's struggles and triumphs, inviting readers ...

Music that crossed the Atlantic from Africa to South America with enslaved people more than two centuries ago arrived last week in Riley Frank's music classroom in the His middle school students ...

One minute you're sitting around the dinner table—a normal-as-can-be, fairly happy family. The next, all hell breaks loose.

One minute you're sitting around the dinner table—a normal-as-can-be, fairly happy family. The next, all hell breaks loose.

In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he ...