NEW YORK — Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nor is there one more shot through with ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...

Installation view, Omar Ba, “Clin d’œil : à Cheikh Anta Diop - Un continent à la recherche de son histoire” (2017), oil, pencil, acrylic, ink, and gouache on corrugated card, 129 4/5 x 282 1/2 x 15 ...

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 ...

This is the story of one of Africa’s greatest ancestors, a figure whose legacy spans multiple regions and cultures. In Rwanda, he is revered as the grandfather of Gihanga, the founding father of the ...

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s more recent history. An archaeologist explains ...

"Reprint of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 2022)"--Colophon "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The African Origin of Civilization, on view at The ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...