African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The next partial solar eclipse is expected to occur on September 21 and be visible in the Southern Hemisphere. Those viewing ...

Findings indicate that media professionals in Senegal and Kenya employ reactive fact-checking strategies such as cross-checking information from sources and verifying images and videos. They also ...

Nor is its impact is limited to vocabulary; African heritage has left its mark on pronunciation, syntax and grammar. The primary languages that survive in Brazil are Yoruba, Fon, Kimbundu and Kikongo, ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...

Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea ...

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism. A response to the legacy of the imperialist and mining ...