In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

Ancient African civilizations are unique in how they interacted with the world around them and the artifacts they left behind. The Nok people of modern-day Nigeria created sophisticated terracotta ...

For decades, the most prominent homes for African art were within museums in Europe. That has changed, especially with the December opening of Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations ...