Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Captain JAMES BRIGGS (of Dighton, Mass.), seeks stout and able-bodied Seamen for a swift and lucrative trading voyage aboard the sloop HOPE. · ROUTE: Providence → WINDWARD COAST of AFRICA → DANISH ...

Long ago, in a vibrant African village nestled among rolling hills and whispering baobab trees, there lived a clever weaver named Kalifu. Kalifu was renowned for his intricate tapestries, each telling ...

The Whale as King: Africa, Empire, and Power in Melville's Moby-Dick Have you ever heard of a whale being compared to an emperor from an ancient kingdom? That's precisely what Herman Melville does in ...

Tolkien occasionally hints at loose correspondences—Middle-earth as a poetic name for the inhabited world, or “west/east/south” in compass terms—but he never locks his map to our continents. This is ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – As of August 11, 2025, the world is grappling with the aftermath of one of Africa’s deadliest cult-related tragedies in recent memory. The Shakahola Forest massacre, where over 400 ...

In Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa, cultural traditions have long shaped unique standards of beauty, particularly for women. The preference for fuller-figured women, celebrated as ...

For students fascinated by animals and Earth’s wild history, the African megatsunami is a jaw-dropping tale. About 73,000 years ago, a massive chunk of Fogo volcano in Cape Verde—160 cubic kilometers ...

Grief often lingers in the quiet places. It’s in the stillness of early morning, the soft lap of water against the shore, the silence where a voice used to be. For one man, remembering his wife wasn’t ...

Ever clutched your controller during a clutch moment in FIFA or explored vast worlds in Horizon Forbidden West? Those epic gaming experiences rely on more than code and creativity as they are rooted ...

I’m an old woman living in Njiru, and the dark has always been my enemy. The night wraps around my little house like a heavy blanket, and every creak or rustle sets my heart racing. But it’s not just ...