Residents at a Burnley care home have celebrated Black History Month with arts and crafts, singing, music folklore.

On May 23, 1968, Henry Dumas, a 33-year-old Black poet from Sweet Home, Ark., was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Authority police officer at the 125th Street-Lenox Avenue subway station in ...

But, in a way, our misfortune makes me even more proud to be African. Despite it all, the years of unfair treatment, theft of ...

It is striking too how certain illusions continue to shape Western thinking about South Africa. Some of these myths are simple-minded but amusing, while others have more sinister effects. One of the ...

I see folklore as collected experience, compressed into the easily-communicable form of stories, poems and sayings. Its wisdom can be at once profound and extremely silly. It is uniquely human, able ...

It is striking too how certain illusions continue to shape Western thinking about South Africa. Some of these myths are simple-minded but amusing, while others have more sinister effects. One of the ...

Historians have recently focused on less Eurocentric ideas and have suggested this folklore likely manifested on the coast of Guinea around 4,000 years ago and that a later name change could have been ...

If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left ...

Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa.

Victoria Gibbon receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation. Stephan Schiffels receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Joscha Gretzinger does not work ...

The ancient folktales and legends woven deeply into the very fabric of Orkney find a central role in major new Scottish film The Outrun. It is an autobiographical tale of islander Amy Liptrot ...