The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...

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For so long the artistic history of an entire continent has largely been told by others or stowed away in faraway museums. As pressure mounts on museums outside Africa to return art and artifacts ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The launching ceremony of the 2026 China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges was held on Thursday at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: I’m a sucker for a good, engaging, pretty history doc. It’s just who I am. But last month, I became absolutely spellbound by a six-part docu-series called Africa’s Great ...

Stuart Tyson Smith to deliver W.E.B. DuBois Virtual Lecture for Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Smith, who has been excavating the ancient site of Tombos in modern ...

In July of 2007, during a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy infamously said: “The tragedy of Africa is that the African ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal opened this month amid a global conversation about the ownership and legacy of African art. The West African nation’s culture ...