Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ...

A new documentary on Afrobeats, Nigerian Yoruba music, and politics will look at a century of fuji, juju, apala, sakara, highlife and more ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

SEGOU, Mali - Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses.

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped a family of three and injured two people at the Dogon Ruwa community of Wase local government area of Plateau state.Recall that some communities in the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, has landed a new ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

People cannot go to Mali's Dogon region to witness its spectacular ancient culture, so the Dogons brought their dancing, ...

Unlike Western astrology with its zodiac signs and planets, Africa's traditional systems are intricately woven into the ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...