Ah, Swahili—the Beyoncé of African languages. Spoken by over 80 million people, it’s the lingua franca of East Africa, ...

Last but not least, Zulu is a Bantu language and one of South Africa’s 11 official languages. With around 27 million people ...

The College of Charleston's Center for the Study of Slavery works with on-campus departments and local organizations to ...

In power in Libya for 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi used the country’s oil billions to sponsor insurgencies across Africa ...

It is rumored that many of the streets in Mooretown, which has since become a neighborhood in Shreveport, were named after ...

Nigeria's Ademola Lookman may have been named Africa's finest at the CAF Awards last Monday, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that he's enjoying a better season than Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.

One of the interesting proverbs I picked up in our General African Studies (GAS 201) course with the late Professor Jabez Olowo Ojoade in the University of Jos in 1979 was ‘it is a bastard child that ...

Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo, one of Africa’s celebrated novelists, created a stirring moment at a conference of African ...

After being mugged, losing her voice due to over-screaming and spending 2 years not being able to sing,  as a budding artist ...

CAF had appeared to float the prospect that he might miss out on a prize that appeared to be destined for him.