On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

South African photographer Shem Compion remembers precisely when his love affair with the Great Rift Valley began. In 2002, in his twenties and in search of adventure, Compion saved what he could, ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

Ahead of the second edition of TheatreMania Africa Festival (TAF) 2025, veteran Nollywood actor, Dr Akin Lewis has opined that African stories told through theatre can provoke dialogue across cultures ...

African forests are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a fundamental shift that will make it more difficult for the world to cut its net emissions to zero. Forests and shrubby ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

World leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, react as they attend a family photo event during a G20 Leaders' Summit plenary session at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, ...

World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies broke with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South Africa on Saturday despite opposition from the ...

When Ashley Marrero, founder and owner of Kente Cones, opened her first brick-and-mortar location in East New York on Juneteenth, she never imagined the shop would so quickly become what she now calls ...