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

But there’s another ancient, lesser-known cryptid to the ... the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European explorers in the early 20th century.

Surprisingly, archaeological evidence from ancient African civilizations is offering ... noted in an article in 2018. Early Bantu communities living along the Limpopo River Valley—where the ...

She learns to build shelters, help catch birds and squirrels, and explores sacred caves where the tribe takes refuge during the rainy season—all while gaining insight into their ancient way of life.

The original modern humans in what is now South Africa were the Bushmen. But this sentence immediately leads to two cries of outrage. First I have admitted there was no such entity as South Africa in ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.