A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer populations that dispersed between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. By combining ...

Like a toy on a string, the timing of cat domestication has been a moving target. Now researchers have pounced on a new timeline suggesting that tame descendants of African wildcats left the continent ...

Tripoli's Red Castle museum has reopened for the first time since the 2011 uprising that toppled Moammar Gadhafi, unveiling a trove of treasures that span millennia, from ancient mummies to relics of ...

Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed – has passed away at the age of 75. His life in music represented a struggle against narrow, oppressive definitions – of ...

Bafana Bafana will host a second-string Ghana at Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto on Tuesday in what will be their one and only official warm-up match ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations finals, ...

Experience an evening of laughter as Kristin Key, known for her sharp wit and viral humor, entertains with stories and a bit of guitar playing. From her wild journey of coming out and living in the ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...