African Path is one of the most exciting African citizen media projects. It is an online platform whose content comes from bloggers, readers, artists, and specialists. It also aggregates news on ...

Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...

TUSTIN – The words of an African villager now stitch together four generations of a British woman’s family. In 1930, when Winifred Pearce was living in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, she chanced across a ...

Netflix recently launched the African Folktales Anthology at the Kalasha Film Festival held in Nairobi, Kenya with a glamorous event that attracted industry talents across sub-Saharan Africa. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Africa Today publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, and short features on topics related to contemporary Africa ...

When Nelson Mandela was released from the Robben Island prison, where he was incarcerated for 27 years as the world’s most famous political detainee, he reportedly said that what he missed most was ...

Picador, Trade paperback, 264 pages, $14. In the decade since the end of apartheid, there’s been an outpouring of novels rendering the new South Africa — and the insidious legacies of the old — from a ...

Harold E. Scheub has built a career coaxing invitations from wary strangers. Lugging a rucksack and a bulky tape recorder through rural South Africa in the 1960s, the linguist knocked on people’s ...

Children ages four and up are invited to the "African Village Folktales" stage show from 4-4:45 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Rasmussen Room of the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S.