Amid Black History Month celebrations in February, some local musicians say they are finding more opportunities at various venues to share their work and stories.

A recent DNA family history test showed Webster's ancestors also hailed from the Mandinka and the Mande-speaking people of West Africa. "Spiritually it made sense why I gravitated to these ...

This year St. Patrick’s Day was on a Monday, a particularly cursed fate for a holiday associated with merriment. I propose extending the celebration all throughout the week — a feat of endurance that ...

Balouo Salo means ‘a bridge to life’ in Mandinka. Primary School Project by Artha Krisiantara ... Eligibility Participants can enter individually or in teams with a maximum of five people. At least ...

For centuries, African people have passed their histories down through oral storytelling. That’s how J.P. Hales-Bâ learned his stories — his dad read him West African folktales at bedtime.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

With one of the most diverse ecosystems in west Africa’s savanna belt ... including the trafficking of weapons, drugs and people. Weapons smuggling is the most prolific illegal activity in ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...