On Christmas Day in 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa. He named the land he encountered Natalis--Portuguese for Christmas. Today, it is known as KwaZulu-Natal.
The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the transatlantic slave trade.
The Rothschild name has become shorthand for extreme wealth, financial power and a mystique that fuels as many myths as ...
More than two centuries after it unlocked the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Rosetta Stone remains at the centre of an unresolved global debate, as renewed calls grow louder for its ...
THE Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade I, has raised the dust over chieftaincy titles bearing the name ‘Yorubaland’, saying ...