During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958, a number of professional footballers playing for French clubs and part of the World Cup-going French national team fold gave up their positions to ...

Vanessa Johnson, a griot or storyteller in the West African tradition, will give voice to the hopes and dreams of young American girls and women, black and white, who fought for equality, on Wednesday ...

THE CONTINENT’S storytellers are set to gather for a vibrant hub of voices, visions, and narratives at the second edition of the Afrotellers Conference this month. Scheduled for October 23–25 in ...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - This year's Black History Month Observance at U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Force Strategic Command Operations was a collaborative effort between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 7th edition of the Joburg Film Festival came to a close Saturday night, bringing an end to a busy week that saw the festival ...

Brian Nwana is eating his way through Abuja and into history. It’s a win that cements his status not just as a content creator, but as a cultural icon using high-energy food reviews to put Abuja’s ...

Africa is home to about 3,000 ethnic groups with more than 2,000 languages, which is approximately 30% of all languages spoken in the world, but how many of these languages are recognised globally?

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Why don't chickens fly? When did the moon learn to be kind? Those and other mysteries were unravelled by dozens of African storytellers in Nairobi on Saturday, helping keep alive ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the global film industry, presenting both opportunities and challenges. The MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF), a leading pan-African film and TV ...

The actor, comedian, playwright and presenter leaves a legacy of humour, storytelling and decades of work across theatre, television and radio ...

"In this collection of hundreds of tales, Harold Scheub captures the sweep and diversity of African mythology. Scheub offers a collection of 400 stories, arranged alphabetically, that touch on ...