Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society and has evolved over time. While traditional ...

Ramaphosa said as an effort to correct the legacy of Bantu Education ... compared to one third of all white children." Since South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, the government ...

On the anniversary of her birth in 1871, we celebrate Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, the pioneering South African activist known ...

Marriage in west Africa has played ... a bride price for a woman to bear children in his name. This ensured his lineage did not disappear. Similarly, among the Frafra people of Ghana one study ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

Black hair is more than just strands of keratin. The afros, locs, braids, twists, and Bantu knots are a cultural archive, a political statement, and a source of culture and pride. Black hair is time ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Equatorial Africa's ... tales of Bantu prejudice against Pygmies, even among the educated. On my first trip to Mossapola, I had asked Bienvenu if he'd marry a Pygmy woman. "Never," he growled.

An Afrikaner woman has gone viral after speaking fluent Sesotho in a video where she expressed her desire to meet popular DJ ...

The story of LenkaBula is the story of many black women, in and outside academia. It is a story of the insidiousness of patriarchal violence which is anchored on undermining, abusing and discrediting ...