Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Christianity flowed from Europe and North America to Africa, often carried by missionaries. But in the 21st century, the pattern has reversed. African-led ...

Legendary Algerian film-maker Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina has passed away at the age of 91. He is most commonly remembered as the first (and only) African to win the coveted Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that ...

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. A lawyer ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

Pax Romana and had a good time, although I can't shake the feeling that it’s closely related to Anno 1800. It seems like a ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners, even those from sites linked to ...

“The museum highlights the deep, complex history of African Americans and their contributions ... with the Smithsonian Board of Regents tohelp map out new policies. It prohibits spending on ...