The latest feature from Franco-Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ('A Screaming Man') follows a 17-year-old girl beset by ...

Many cultures share a common bond of having folklore, traditional beliefs, customs, stories, dances, and practices passed down from generation to generation. Storytelling in this way is central in Afr ...

African ethnobotany has shaped global drug discovery for centuries, yet African nations continue to import between 70 and 90 percent of the medicines they consume. Africa consumes what it could invent ...

A burial ground that served free and enslaved people of color for over 80 years has been officially confirmed beneath ...

This year’s festival begins and ends with powerful local films confronting apartheid, colonialism and memory through ...

South African filmmakers are telling world-class stories rooted in local history, myth, and memory with global resonance.

Ghost tours are not about frightening people...They are about helping people understand how stories, buildings, and ...

By making the museum the data source of Africa, Zimbabwe would be declaring that Africa’s future intelligence will be built on African memory. In doing so, the country would firmly entrench itself as ...

By Bukar Usman AJN Tremearne (1877-1915), an anthropologist and ethnographer, was a former British ex-serviceman. He served in Nigeria for seven years and wrote, among others, the following books: ...

Why monkeys live in trees.--Today me, tomorrow thee.--The hare and the widow.--Clowns with sad faces.--Why hawks feed on chickens.--Nyangondhu, the fisherman.--Law of the jungle.--When will animals ...