Three African artists collaborate to create a Pan-African comics collection inspired by African myths and Afrofuturism, highlighting the continent’s diversity and controlling their own narratives.

Enslaved African Americans could never forget their status as property, no matter how well their owners treated them. But it would be too simplistic to say that all masters and slaves hated each ...

Napoleon Manwatha has been searching for his long-lost childhood friend, Anthony Nathan, for several years. The two met in December 1988 as Manwatha would regularly visit his uncle, who worked in ...

A woman refused to pay her artist friend after she “sexualized” her in the wedding portrait she commissioned. In a post shared to the Am I the A**hole forum on Reddit, a married woman wrote ...

Most of his friends feel the same: "90% if not all of them" want out, he says. The statistics from the African Youth Survey 2022, carried out in 15 countries by the South African Ichikowitz Family ...

In a heartwarming act of generosity, South African businessman and billionaire, Xolane Ndhlovu, has once again demonstrated his commitment to philanthropy by gifting a house to a Facebook friend.

Movie"The way to be a citizen of the world is to be at home in a lot of places" ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The recent episode of heightened inflation serves to illustrate this ...

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