South Africa has some of the best night-sky viewing on the planet — and these lodges put the cosmos front and center.

JOHANNESBURG — At the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg , farm workers are busy tilling the ...

People always seem to have extremely positive reactions to me as a white guy speaking African languages, and I love ...

Papua New Guinea is the country where the most languages are spoken—840, more than twice as many as Europe. Continental ...

I’ve been spending the last two or three weeks studying Wolof, a West African language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania, and today I’ve come to Harlem to try it out in NYC’s Little ...

In this excerpt from Eliot Stein's 'Custodians of Wonder,' a writer travels to West African to find an 800-year-old ...

Tsegaye Gebremedhin, a seasoned tour guide, is among 60 Ethiopian tourism professionals embracing the transformative power of ...

In January 2024, disease X was the name for a possible future pandemic. It was an idea. No actual disease existed. Now, ...

Instead she spoke Afrikaans, the language promoted by South Africa’s white minority rulers ... and children to whom she has taught some words and phrases. “I miss speaking to someone ...

United Methodists' new battleground is in Africa, where conferences are beginning to vote on regionalization, granting ...

The Siena Literacy Center provides ESL, ABE and GED literacy and support services to adults on the west side of Detroit ...

An openness to and an appreciation of individual freedom is also woven throughout Sobukwe’s letters to Pogrund (in the book ...