Among nomadic tribes, owning a flock of cows was not the only symbol of wealth. Authentic African art and African wooden headrests and neck rests are often additional, supportive indices of status.

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Powerful and majestic, the king of the beasts has no natural predators. But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations, due to loss of living space and ...

There are various Ghana CEPS ranks and their symbols that all traders dealing with imports and exports in Ghana should know.

But even though they have been in use for some years, not everyone knows the meaning of the themes and symbols on the Kenyan ...

They are often disparaged as ugly, sly and cruel scavengers but for South African artist Hannelie Coetzee, hyenas are symbols of female power and the normalisation of queerness. The walls of her ...