Should African people be called black – or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it was chosen by ...

After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, there was significant optimism about police reform in the country. Impressive steps were taken to bring the South African Police Service under ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

The first group of white South Afrikaners granted refugee status by President Donald Trump arrived in America in May after ...

In southern Africa, people from Stem1 and Stem2 merged, giving rise to a new lineage that would lead to the Nama and other living humans in that region. Elsewhere in Africa, ...

Across Africa, harm reduction is emerging as a quiet force not only in public health, but as a governance philosophy. Local ...

Evidence of more complex stone tools is found across Africa and dates to about the same time period. Different populations of humans made a variety of different tools. For instance, in Central Africa, ...

Black youth are now able to take free trips to Africa through a non-profit organization called Birthright AFRICA. This article includes an interview with the founders about their organization's ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

Across Africa, from east to west, people are experiencing a food crisis that is bigger and more complex than the continent has ever seen, say diplomats and humanitarian workers.

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government ...