Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Captain JAMES BRIGGS (of Dighton, Mass.), seeks stout and able-bodied Seamen for a swift and lucrative trading voyage aboard the sloop HOPE. · ROUTE: Providence → WINDWARD COAST of AFRICA → DANISH ...

Most readers meet Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes’s cool logic. Fewer realize that Africa shaped both the detective’s creator and the knight he became. As a young ship’s doctor on the West ...

Long ago, in a vibrant African village nestled among rolling hills and whispering baobab trees, there lived a clever weaver named Kalifu. Kalifu was renowned for his intricate tapestries, each telling ...

Have you ever heard of a whale being compared to an emperor from an ancient kingdom? That's precisely what Herman Melville does in his famous novel Moby-Dick. The Great Ethiopian of the Deep. In ...

The Whale as King: Africa, Empire, and Power in Melville's Moby-Dick Have you ever heard of a whale being compared to an emperor from an ancient kingdom? That's precisely what Herman Melville does in ...

Tolkien occasionally hints at loose correspondences—Middle-earth as a poetic name for the inhabited world, or “west/east/south” in compass terms—but he never locks his map to our continents. This is ...

In Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa, cultural traditions have long shaped unique standards of beauty, particularly for women. The preference for fuller-figured women, celebrated as ...

For students fascinated by animals and Earth’s wild history, the African megatsunami is a jaw-dropping tale. About 73,000 years ago, a massive chunk of Fogo volcano in Cape Verde—160 cubic kilometers ...

On July 5, 2025, eight men were deported from the United States to South Sudan following a prolonged legal battle. The men, immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam, and one from South ...

Ever clutched your controller during a clutch moment in FIFA or explored vast worlds in Horizon Forbidden West? Those epic gaming experiences rely on more than code and creativity as they are rooted ...

I’m an old woman living in Njiru, and the dark has always been my enemy. The night wraps around my little house like a heavy blanket, and every creak or rustle sets my heart racing. But it’s not just ...