Kenya is not only a cradle of humanity, it is also a cradle of symbolic culture, beauty practice, and ornament innovation.

The former Paralympic and Olympic athlete rose to international prominence in the early 2000s, breaking world records as a double-amputee sprinter. Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee after ...

Tracing an engraved ostrich eggshell fragment, normalizing the lines according to stable visual properties, and extracting key variables provides the quantitative data needed to reveal the structured ...

Things came to a head in November, when protesters stormed a glitzy preview event for officials and foreign guests. The intruders, echoing the oba, demanded that the museum be suspended pending an ...

Tucked away on the sprawling Wits campus in central Johannesburg is the Origins Centre, a hidden gem of a museum and art gallery that takes visitors on a journey through Africa's incredibly rich and ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

As the global art world splintered across multiple destinations in early February, Marrakech and 1-54 quietly asserted their relevance.

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

The Walter and Linda Evans Gallery of African American Art opens Feb. 6, 2025, at Telfair Academy in Savannah, featuring 28 donated works and marking a historic shift for the museum.

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The South African central bank's chief economist Christopher Loewald, a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member, is taking early retirement effective from March 1 this ...