The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...

When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In his groundbreaking book, The African Origins of Our Faith: Pan-African ...

There is a common thread of misinformation that has been woven into the origin stories of descendants from the Diaspora. Whether dispersed around the world as a result of the intercontinental slave ...

With each passing day the assault on all things Black increases. Ancient African proverbs offer wisdom that can give more weight to Black history lessons Ancient African proverbs offer wisdom that can ...

Dynamic weapons of soft power, the cultural and creative industries have the wind in their sails on the African continent. Even politicians and business leaders are sitting up and taking notice, as it ...

In the kitchen of my Airbnb in Dar es Salaam I stripped down to my underwear and wrapped a colourful kanga cloth around my hips. It was day three of my dance lessons with Zaishanga, but I was showing ...

Introduction / Nichole N. Bridges, Saint Louis Art Museum -- Part One: Temp/oralities. Gosette Lubondo and the Restless Ghosts of Time / Sylvia Sukop, Washington University in St. Louis -- Ties That ...

The UK's first Africology spa has opened in London at Bloww, an urban salon in the heart of the West End. Step inside and you wouldn't know it though - it transports you to tranquillity in a flash. As ...

Written by Mark Shelvock and Monika J. Mandoki. According to Plato, Socrates’ humility in The Apology is an expression of wisdom. Socrates famously declares that the only thing he knows is that he ...

Prof Taiwo Oseni Afisi, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) of Lagos State University, has said Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies, no matter how advanced, cannot replace the ...