An ancient golden coffin worth $4 million, which is believed to have been looted from Egypt and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City, has been returned to its home in a ceremony...
About one-third of African students studying in the U.S. are Nigerians, an official said on Wednesday. The Cultural Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, Malia Heroux, made this known during an education fair for Nigerian students seeking...
South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has just published the 9th edition of its “Where to invest in Africa” report which ranks the most attractive destinations for investment on the continent in 2020.
While the most attractive economies remain broadly...
The Mundari people are a small ethnic group of South Sudan and one of the Nilotic peoples.
The group like the Fulani tribes, are very cattle-oriented: cattle serves as food, a form of currency and a mark of status. Marriages...
Nigerian PhD student Zahrah Ibrahim has landed a prestigious engineering award in Scotland.
Zahrah's impeccable engineering efforts were recognized by the University of Aberdeen School of Engineering.
In a post on Facebook, the university said, "The School of Engineering would like...
In Tanzania’s Zanzibar region, traditional healers are being registered by authorities keen to regulate the practitioners who treat everything from depression to hernias.
About 340 healers have been registered with their toolkits of herbs, holy scriptures and massages, in accordance...
A Zambian Bank worker has been suspended for allegedly sleeping with over 200 men while promising them jobs.
The men are reported to be both clients and job seekers, most of whom she lured into bed after promising them jobs...
Kenya has banned foreigners from adopting local children and will work toward a new policy governing the process, the presidency said on Thursday.
The move follows that of neighboring Ethiopia, which also stopped adoption of children by foreigners in 2018,...
A recently released Oxfam report has revealed that the continent's three richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 40% - or 650 million people across the continent.
The three richest people on the continent according to Forbes 2019 billionaires...
Shorter people are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday.
Each additional 10 centimetres in height translates into a 41 percent smaller chance of contracting the disease in men and a 33 percent...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
