Encompassing artistic creations, funerary art is associated with burial practices and commemorative rituals designed to ...

Discover the wisdom of ancient African proverbs and their relevance to Black history and lives today. Learn how these proverbs can inspire and empower.

On Tanzania’s Lake Victoria’s Ukerewe Island, widowhood is not merely about loss—it is a passage that demands rituals to ...

A wedding is the most sacred ritual in India and every community or religion has its own traditions, ancient as well as modern, i.e., the sheer diversity that makes it even more special. Gujarat is ...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, celebrates the first day of spring and the renewal of life, marking the beginning of the Iranian calendar year. Nowruz is more than just the beginning of the new year—it ...

Don't laugh. The blooms reached the fourth stage: peduncle elongation. D.C.’s iconic cherry blossoms have reached stage four as they head toward peak bloom, the National Park Service (NPS ...

The Cherry Blossom trees have now reached stage 4, also called the Peduncle Elongation phase, according to the National Park Service. It means we can see the pink buds and that the cherry blossoms ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...

The Africa World Cup qualifying campaign resumes this week, and the group stage will pass the halfway point, with teams starting to learn whether they'll be able to start making plans for ...

In 1986, Sue Dobson, a young white woman from Pretoria, was recruited by the African National Congress (ANC) to be a spy within the South African apartheid regime. As part of her mission, she was ...

Tensions with the United States could propel South Africa to depart from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) agreement, a development that could also have regional ramifications and add ...