Foreword. Reclaiming ancestral narratives / Sir David Adjaye -- Introduction. Kings, kingship and kingdoms in African history / John Parker -- Ancient Egypt and Nubia: kings of flood and kings of rain ...

Morocco has spent the last two decades transforming into Africa's auto-manufacturing hub. The country produced 535,825 vehicles in 2023, per data company CEIC. The kingdom is now looking to make the ...

The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired archaeologists to... Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who ...

AFA copy 39088019753995 gift from Janet Stanley. Summary Since the beginning of time, Africa's been inhabited by humans. As one of the oldest civilizations, it is suspected that mankind first ...

The Trump administration has deported five immigrants described as “depraved monsters” to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on banishing people to third ...

Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an archaeological dig has confirming the histories told and retold by griots. From the ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They’re part of West African culture but the term itself has a bit of colonialist irony in its aura — one ...