Geneticist Rick Kittles and Gina Page helping families put together missing pieces of their heritage through African Ancestry. The UN designated the International Decade for People of African ...

The Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa; an ethnographical survey, edited for the (South African) Inter-University Committee for African Studies ... Inter-university Committee for African Studies ...

The Tutsi tribe is a major ethnic group found in Rwanda and Burundi. For generations, they have been known for their impressive height, with young adult males averaging 1.83 meters (6 feet) tall.

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their ...

If you venture to the Southern end of the African continent, you will find a land that is influenced by many diverse cultures. Modernism has mixed with tradition in this part of the world, and ...

In this video, I travel deep into the Omo Valley to visit one of Africa’s most visually distinct tribes—the Lip Plate Tribe. Known for their striking cultural traditions, their food is just as rooted ...

The Bambuti tribe, also know as Mbuti, are Africa's shortest tribe, averaging under 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) in height. By contrast the median height of African males is 168cm, while that for ...

For Africans in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe, that specificity was lost for many when people from various tribes and African countries were all lumped together on ships, captured and ...

By the mid-18th century, enslaved people were Africa's main export. The trade in enslaved people represented as much as 95 per cent of the value of West Africa's exports.