What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

The General History of Africa (GHA) is a flagship initiative of the UNESCO Operational Strategy for Priority Africa (2022–2029). It seeks to fundamentally reshape how African history is taught and ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nigel Cliff BORN IN BLACKNESS Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The General History of Africa (GHA) project was initiated by UNESCO in 1964 and created with a long-term perspective. It is the fruit of collaboration by a team of approximately 350 Africanist ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

The Fulani people are Africa’s largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 African countries, from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to ...

In France, two major African cultural events – ‘Africa 2020’ and ‘BD 20-21, Year of the Comic Strip’ – were scheduled to take place in 2020 and 2021, before a nasty little virus thwarted the plans of ...

Not only is it a reach to equate Nikole Hannah-Jones’ award-winning journalism project to the field of legal scholarship pioneered by civil rights activist and law professor Derrick Bell, if one were ...

In 2015, a study from the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Oberg Research found that on average, only 8% or 9% of history class time in US schools is devoted to Black ...