Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "At the beginning, I thought we were digging a deep hole for ourselves, as people feel so passionately about this character," says ...

This is one of the first large scale series made by Africans about Africa's own history - telling the story of the making of the iconic African King. It's set in the 1700s and follows him from ...

Reviewed by John K. Thornton in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 511-513. "As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small ...

Julio Pinedo greets the audience after being crowned as the Afro-Bolivian king by members of the community of African descendents that live in near La Paz, Bolivia.David Mercado / Reuters Bolivia may ...

Host Allison Keyes is joined by NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton for a peek into her reporter's notebook and some of the stories coming out of the continent. These stories include ...

Véronique Tadjo, a Franco-Ivorian novelist and painter, commander of arts and letters and president of the jury of the Orange Prize for Books in Africa, has lived in the UK for several years. As an ...