Scientists have found an elusive chameleon species that was last spotted in Madagascar 100 years ago.
Researchers from Germany and Madagascar rediscovered the elusive Voeltzkow's chameleon in Madagascar. It was last seen in 1913, before World War I.
Conservation group Global...
The Asaro "mud men" from Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands are known for their strange masks made with clay, and adorned with pigs' teeth and shells.
The Asaro live in the nearby village of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province...
The appointment of Nigeria's ex-finance minister to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been thrown into uncertainty after the US opposed the move.
On Wednesday, a WTO nominations committee recommended the group's 164 members appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
She would be...
Wole Soyinka has used his time in lockdown to write his first novel chronicles of the happiest people on earth in almost 50 years. The novel will be released this year, with the 86-year-old author also planning fresh theatre work after ‘continuous writing’ in lockdown
The Suri are an agro-pastoral people and inhabit the mountains of the Great Rift Valley in the plains of south-western Ethiopia. As a people, they pride themselves on the scars they carry.
In this remote Ethiopian tribe, members undergo extremely...
Crocodiles may be one of the deadliest most brutal creature in the animal kingdom, but in a small village of Bazoule in Burkina Faso the villagers have no problem living alongside them. In fact it is not unusual to...
A Nigerian has made history as the First black man to be elected member of Cologne’s City Council in Germany.
Dr. John Emeka Akude, a Nigerian-born political scientist made history by becoming the first Councillor of African origin in Cologne,...
Body Modification has always been an integral part of African culture. It is widely performed for a variety of reasons in many African societies, and a plethora of historical and current forms of modifications exists
Lawmakers in Nigeria's state of Kaduna have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age of 14.
The move follows public outrage over a wave of rapes, which prompted the nation's state governors to...
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