How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...

A new report by a University of Bath psychologist has revealed that everyday perceptions of Africa in the U.K. and the U.S.

The west African road network is vast, estimated at over 709,000km of roads by the Global Roads Inventory Project. It ...

Mike Huckabee said the United States is no longer pursuing a two-state solution for Palestinians. That's bad news – for ...

When communities are constantly on the move, they lose political power. In Senegal, Awa Sow has radical ideas to change all ...

Across the continent, thousands of Fulani people are holding fast to their ancient customs—while reshaping their traditions for a new age.

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Without guarantees, President Ghazouani’s dialogue – the country’s sixth – could widen the political divisions that threaten ...

All this pandering and posturing will come at the expense of the West, the moderate ... closer to his heart. The Berbers are the original inhabitants of North Africa. They are not Arabs, nor ...

Berber women traditionally adorned themselves ... The practice often marked significant life stages, such as puberty or marriage. In West Africa, tattooing has been an integral part of cultural ...

The Tuareg, a Berber ethnic group ... The slow-motion implosion of West Africa soon followed. The last Festival in the Desert held in Mali took place on the outskirts of Timbuktu, where Tinariwen ...

Morocco is riven by multiple fissure lines: rich-poor, urban-rural, Arab-Berber, traditionalist-modernist, with a plethora of strong regional identities to boot. These pre-existing divisions could ...