Nigeria is home to one of the most striking rock formations in West Africa. These natural structures are not just a geological wonders.

Cameroon’s Mandara Mountains and Malawi’s Mount Mulanje were also added to the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage ...

Yannick Diekeno Ilunga, aka Petite Noir, makes music that reflects the fragmented identities and borderless visions of the ...

The "Locked Up" rapper's dream for a futuristic Senegalese city may not become a reality.

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light ...

A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.

The Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present ...

Ever since exiting that cave, Townley Bassett has been “obsessed” with finding answers. The Cape Town-born artist has spent decades visiting many of the thousands of ancient rock art sites that dot ...

Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.