The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...

The Mughal Empire, with its grand palaces, opulent courts, and immense wealth, is often regarded as one of the richest ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.

And if there’s a question why these ancient scribes would make such off-the-cuff annotations, the most apparent answer would be tedium. A bit of levity keeps one from going nuts. However ...

Niger joins Mali and Burkina Faso in distancing from France, having quit the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and forming the Alliance of Sahel States. Similar moves are underway across ...

An ancient Trinitarian worship song written around 200AD, has been repackaged and released today. ‘The First Hymn’ is based on a fragment of papyrus found 100 years ago in ancient Egyptian ruins and ...

Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye was once a bustling dinosaur thoroughfare. A newly discovered set of at least 131 fossilized footprints dating to between 170 million and 166 million years ago ...

West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over a row between Algeria and its southern neighbour Mali. On Monday, the two countries closed their airspace to each others ...

Between about 3.96 and 3 billion years ago, erosion from ancient granites deposited sediment into ancient basins. Between about 3 to 2.5 billion years ago, those sedimentary deposits were buried ...

Relations between Algeria and Mali are rapidly deteriorating. On 7 April ... “For now, energy cooperation between Niger and Algeria seems dead in the water,” the same diplomatic source said. We ...

African gourd decorating is a centuries-old traditional art. The craft consists of turning simple gourds into intricate works of art using various techniques and materials. Not only the decorated ...