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 ...

Introduction -- Early popular culture: sources and silences -- Mines, migrant labour and township culture -- The city and the road -- The crowd, the state -- and songs -- The media: globalisation and ...

The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 African countries, from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to ...

In these ‘first-voice’ museums, curators and leaders are part of the community the museum interprets. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, features 800 steel slabs, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will celebrate its ninth anniversary Sept. 24. Since opening in 2016, the museum has welcomed almost 13 million ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...

Experts believe more than a million African artifacts are being held outside of the African continent, scattered mostly throughout Europe and North America in museums and private collections. Many ...

It’s estimated that more than 80 percent of African Americans can trace one ancestor back to Charleston. The International African American Museum centers the stories of the enslaved. After 20 years ...

In 1964, Dr. Charles H. Wright, a Black obstetrician in Detroit, found himself in Denmark to get help in the recruitment of physicians and dentists who could work in African villages. While there he ...