Three events made Monday, 16 June a sobering moment for me. On that day, back in 1976, news filtered that the killer ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

When you read Jan Vansina's books on Rwanda--such as Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom and Le Rwanda Ancien: Le Royaume Nyiginya--you are left wondering why he exerted so much effort ...

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

Coastal environmental science student Lucille Yoes was selected as an LSU global ambassador for 2025. She and the rest of the ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, asked President Donald Trump this ...

Representative image (AP) Leprosy is one of the oldest human diseases and originated in Eurasia or Africa A new study ... indigenous peoples well before European colonization.

Leprosy was therefore already affecting American indigenous peoples well before European colonization. The study authors analyzed ... has shown leprae migrated with human groups out of Africa and into ...

Long before the arrival of European colonizers ... Meanwhile, Chris Oluoch, programmes director at Fairtrade Africa, highlighted the enduring impact of colonialism on Kenya's coffee industry. Today, ...

Let’s be clear: colonialism and slavery were crimes against ... But justice begins at home. And before Africa can cash the reparations cheque, it must pay its internal debts.