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 ...

Africa 39;s rich history, culture, and heritage are often underappreciated, both within the continent and globally .

If it is to be of any real and permanent good, it means development, not toward a transplanted imitation of Europe, but toward its own local, African civilization, whose features no man can yet ...

The hippo, could also have offered unique agricultural and military advantages to African civilization. However, the hippo's aggressive nature, crushing jaws and four-and-a-half ton size make them ...

Wole Soyinka and Late President Kwame Nkruma of Ghana In Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilizations occurred in a vac­uum.

Stone structures are testament to the impressive intellect, organizational, engineering and architectural skills of ancient African civilizations. Ancient Africa is home to many impressive stone ...

Cheikh Anta Diop, taken from The African Origin of Civilisation. In his two major works Nations Negres et Culture and Anteriorite des Civilizations Negres he profoundly influenced thinking about ...

It is also worth noting, for the umpteenth time, that the Original Makers of American Civilization were not “immigrants,” in the traditional sense of the term, but unspeakably dehumanized, traumatized ...

Goals are fickle things, especially in Civilization VII. What starts as a peaceful bid by Harriet Tubman's Egyptian empire for cultural supremacy in the ancient world ends up devolving into an ...