Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former gold mine worker smokes heroin on the street in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South Africa When Nelson ...

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar’s Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye ...

The world's population is on a steady rise, with the United Nations predicting it to peak at around 10 billion in the mid-2080s. As such, it's no shocker that new mega-cities are sprouting up across ...

From 1992 to 1999, I worked as a book vendor on Sixth Avenue at 8th Street in Greenwich Village. It was there that I befriended Yusef, an African from Côte d’Ivoire who was trying to “make business,” ...

The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins ...

Explore the emerging trend of African city breaks as South Africans seek new adventures closer to home. From the vibrant streets of Windhoek to the cultural richness of Kigali, discover the unique ...

Colorful patterned fabrics will twirl, rhythmic beats will pulse, and mouthwatering aromas will fill the Iowa City air on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the inaugural African Festival of Arts and Culture. The ...

His signature “happy day” greeting and a warm smile – that was all Carson residents needed from the forefather of the city in recent years. After all, he’d done so much for Carson, from the very ...