How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

Africans from ancient times have had words for everything. It was the language, oiled by words and vocabulary, that took centre stage in the functioning communities. Africa had almost everything ...

These civilizations have endured both periods of prosperity and hardship, steadfastly preserving their traditions, languages ... by freed African Americans. While not ancient in the sense of ...

WHY this work has been restricted to the “modern” languages of Africa is not apparent, seeing that there are not half a dozen ancient or extinct African tongues altogether of which science has ...

Justice Baidoo, a journalist in Ghana, is teaching his two young children how to speak the ancient African language of Ahanta. He home schools them with lessons several times a week in an effort ...

A new study of ancient DNA has revealed the shared African and ... The Swahili people embraced a unique mix of religion – Islam – and language – Kiswahili (an African Bantu language that uses Arabic ...