OUALLAM, NIGER. Scrawled onto a cement gravestone in the village of Tchombangou is the date when the calm of the remote community in southwest Niger was shattered: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019.

A community development organization is planning an $80 million "African Village" on Rockford's S. Main Street corridor, ...

African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a new genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral African ...

But I'm an African myself and don't have cultural hang-ups about this matter — a village is a village, a town a town and a city a city! Hope that clarifies matters; if not happy to continue the ...

Life in an African village Explore the life of a young boy in Kenya. By Sherry Shahan. Nov. 07, 2006, 12:11 p.m. ET After the ...

For 20 years, southern Sudan, Africa, had been a war zone. The power infrastructure had been completely destroyed, and many residents had fled to neighboring countries. The villagers who remained in ...

The village was founded in 1970 by Oba Adefunmi I -- a Detroit native born as Walter Eugene King -- and fashioned for African-Americans around the West African Yoruba culture that originated in ...

And in Pan-African Village, brewing tensions over ownership and privileged access to the land threaten to unravel its promise. "I was the first to arrive here," Skiers says, beaming.

The African Art Village returned to the Menlo Park area of the city, where it will run through Feb. 13. It offers authentic African food, clothing, artwork, gifts and more.