The discovery of dozens of stone tools by archaeologists in the Shangchen region of China suggest our earliest ancestors left the continent more than two million years ago. The artefacts are largely ...

Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court ...

The French proverb “the more things change, the more they remain the same” popularised by the French novelist Alphonse Karr (1808-90), will remain relevant for the African political and economic ...

Nigeria’s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as provocative and completely unacceptable, the xenophobic attack on Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa. The ...

Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a ...