There’s a new addition at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Bay Lake, Florida, and she weighs a whopping 218 pounds. An African elephant calf named Corra was recently born at the resort, making her the first ...

The partnership, with the Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence for Sport Science and Development (ICESSD) at the Cape Town university, offers a "rare" opportunity for PhD candidates to conduct ...

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The festival's eighth edition will celebrate below-the-lines talents while focusing on audience development and outreach.

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he’s also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

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Dr. Stephen Akintayo is Forbes Best of Africa Leading Investment Coach and Real Estate Mogul. Chairman and Founder, Gtext Holdings. Africa holds vast untapped potential and a growing spirit of ...

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For centuries, African people have passed their histories down through oral storytelling. That’s how J.P. Hales-Bâ learned his stories — his dad read him West African folktales at bedtime. “Even when ...

The first time I ever used the term post-civil rights to describe the new generation of African-American politicians I was studying, the Rev. Joseph Lowery hollered at me. He wanted to know, What in ...