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...
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...
A law in eSwatini (Formerly Swaziland) that relegated married women to the legal status of minors under the guardianship of their husbands has been ruled unconstitutional by the kingdom’s High Court.
The High Court of eSwatini ruled on Friday (30...
A Zimbabwean Scholar has been Honored with a Statue in New York City alongside Oprah Winfrey and 8 others. She is the only African woman to have received this honor.
Tererai Trent appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009...
The Osun Osogbo festival, a traditional celebration that is thought to be 600 years old, is under way in Nigeria's south-western Osun state.
The two-week festival is considered to be the biggest annual traditional religious event of the Yoruba people.
Every...
The World’s First Illustrated Christian Bible is in Ethiopia, and It Is 800 years Older than the King James Version, and was handwritten in a day. The book, which is kept securely in a bright-blue circular hut at the...
In what has been described as a “silent extinction”, giraffe numbers have fallen by up to 40 per cent over the last 30 years due to threats including trade in their parts, as well as habitat loss, illegal hunting...
