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

Discover the world of D'IYANU, a Black-owned African-inspired clothing brand. Learn about its origins and the impact of African textiles on fashion.

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.

The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that ...

Africa is the most linguistically diverse continent in the world. Learn more about the 15 MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES IN AFRICA in ...

The Odunde Festival marked 50 years in Philadelphia on Sunday with a 15-block celebration of African culture, community and ...

The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most of the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to ...

Prof Ngugi insisted that you should first learn your mother tongue. Speaking one’s mother tongue preserves culture and a ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

If one factor could be said to have fuelled his intellectual and literary evolution, it was undoubtedly the language of his ...

The General History of Africa (GHA) is a pioneering corpus, unparalleled in its ambition to cover the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary ...