Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nama girl in Northern Cape province, South Africa. She wears a white shirt and a black skirt with white spots. She sits on the ...

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...

The fate of a cockroach / Tawfik al-Hakim -- Intelligence powder / Kateb Yacine -- Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston Nthsona -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- A ...

For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...

“African art.” American audiences for generations have been conditioned to connect that phrase with items like wood carvings, masks, and shields. The “African art” galleries at most museums are full ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...

New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary path to becoming human. Now the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside the continent ...