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A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...
In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at attention in a clearing ...
Josef Nadj and his seven dancers take us on a journey back to the very roots of dance in a frenetic, absorbing performance ...
DEI is a framework to foster fair treatment and the participation of all groups, especially those historically discriminated ...
The Bantu-speaking Tribes of South Africa: an Ethnographical Survey. Edited for the (South African) Inter-University Committee for African Studies by I. Schapera. Pp. xv + 453 + 24 plates.
Have you ever wondered why chicken eggs can be different colors? While most eggs are white or brown, they also come in colors like cream, pink, blue and green. In addition — and this is no “yolk” — ...
The southwestern regions of the Central African Republic and the northern Republic of Congo are home to the Aka (also known as Bayaka), a nomadic tribe of hunter-gatherers who, from a Western ...
we insist that the calculations for Africa are simply different. Africa accounts for a fraction of global emissions but bears a disproportionate burden when it comes to energy poverty. Fossil ...
Balancing Development and Climate Realities Though critics will argue that this push for fossil fuel proliferation contradicts global climate goals, at the AEC, we insist that the calculations for ...
Living with some of the world's most remote tribal communities has changed filmmaker ... from boats to a machine used to grind sorghum - a staple grain in Africa and Asia. And in the show, we ...