What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

I remember the first time I read the words of the Frenchman Charles Arthaud: “Inoculation, which will surely surprise you, is known and practiced amongst the Negres in some parts of Africa.” By the ...

Whether you’re teaching a Black history or U.S. history course, any teaching about Black people must begin in Africa. That is where the history of mankind, and the history of Black people in America, ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Georg Hegel in his famous text, "The Philosophy of History," wrote that Africa is “no historical part of the world; it has no movement of development to exhibit…What we properly understand by Africa, ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A local travel blogger and author has a new children’s book that focuses on educating children and adults about pieces of African-American history that are often untold. Kyler ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Big gaps exist in the ...

‘The face of Africa has long been concealed from the world by myths and prejudice of all kinds,’ wrote Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, the Director-General of UNESCO, in 1979. ‘The General History of Africa ...

settlers who trekked to the interior, pushed back the savages who lived there, discovered great mineral wealth, and set the stage for industrialization. Since 1994, those tales of European conquest ...