Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court ...

The French proverb “the more things change, the more they remain the same” popularised by the French novelist Alphonse Karr (1808-90), will remain relevant for the African political and economic ...

Introduction -- Preface -- Going out -- Founding a mission -- On trek -- The first three years -- The Bura language -- Down the Benue -- Civilizing agencies -- Mohammedanism in Nigeria -- A primitive ...

If you still think that African art is not your thing, there's an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum that may change your mind. It's called "Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures," ...

When I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), one exhibit stopped me in my tracks. It described European traders arriving in Africa to exchange goods with ...

Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a ...

The Cambridge Law Journal publishes articles on all aspects of law. Special emphasis is placed on contemporary developments, but the journal's range includes jurisprudence and legal history. An ...

Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.