Belgium’s King Philippe returned a Kakuungu mask to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during his state visit on Wednesday, signaling the beginning of “stronger cooperation” between the two countries. The rare mask was previously on display at Belgium’s AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, just outside Brussels. The artwork will now be returned to Congo after …
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Thousands of Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania have written to the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, pleading for assistance in halting plans to evict them from their ancestral land. The Tanzanian government is threatening to evict more than 150,000 Maasai people because the UN cultural agency Unesco and …
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We probably live one of the most special eras in World History. Today, there are more inventions during a single day than during a decade, 20 years ago. And these innovations spread at a speed never seen before. People all over the globe share the same practices instantly and this, even when they originally have …
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Alexander Pushkin is often regarded as the greatest Russian author. Many readers are unaware that he was influenced by his African great-grandfather, General Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal. “Boyar credentials, African heritage, and a personal link to Peter the Great were all vital to Pushkin’s identity,” says Anne Lounsbery, a Russian literature researcher. To emphasize his connection …
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Yam was an African kingdom that existed in ancient times. Not much is known about this ancient kingdom, and what little we do know about it comes from a few Kemetic texts from the Old Kingdom period. According to these texts, the people of Yam had contacts, specifically trade and military, with the Old Kingdom’s …
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The Great Sphinx, a giant 4,500-years-old limestone statue situated near the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, is one of the world’s largest and oldest statues. Measuring 240 feet (73 meters) in length and 66 feet (20 meters) in height, it is also one of the most recognizable relics of the civilization of Kemet, though …
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Over the last few decades, scientific research and analysis have uncovered a wealth of eye-opening insights into our childhood years and how they determine who we’ll become as adults. One of the most fascinating of these discoveries (something we dive deep into here in this article) was made by looking at the brain wave patterns of newborns, …
In the childhood of the world, Africa was the pioneer land as regards the evolution of medicine. To her belongs the high honor of having raised the healing art to a level far exceeding that hitherto attained. Both in diagnosis and in therapeutics astonishing progress was made. Even pathology attracted widespread interest; the Edwin Smith …
The Zimbabwe birds are stone-carved birds found in the ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe, an African civilization located in the modern country of Zimbabwe. The country was named after the ruin built by the ancestors of the Shona people, a bantu ethnic group native to the area. According to many scholars, the …
Mexico has returned an ancient bronze sculpture to Nigeria after thwarting an attempt to smuggle it into the country, officials say. The artefact is from Nigeria’s south-western Ife city, famous for works depicting royalty and deities of the once-powerful Yoruba kingdom. The sculpture is of a man sitting cross-legged, wearing a head dress and holding …
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