Western education regularly overlooks these monarchs, but theGrio never will. Meet the African kings who deserve recognition. If you leave the telling of your story to others, you’ll miss the truth.

Source: YouTube "Some day... you will rule over all other kings." South Africa's Mzansi Magic has revealed an official trailer for an epic new series debuting in 2023 called Shaka iLembe. This is one ...

“At the beginning, I thought we were digging a deep hole for ourselves, as people feel so passionately about this character,” says Angus Gibson, the director and co-creator of South Africa’s ...

Reviewed by John K. Thornton in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (3) 2019, pages 511-513. "As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small ...

If you’re following the Black travel movement on social media, it may seem that men aren’t jetsetting nearly as much as women – but that couldn’t be more wrong. They are crisscrossing the global in ...

British royals expert Hilary Fordwich stunned CNN anchor Don Lemon in this viral clip from Monday evening by sidestepping a question about the royal family's responsibility for the slave trade by ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Harambee Kingston will host an “African Kings and Queens” Photo Booth event on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the African Cultural Arts Center at 231 Clinton Ave.

Michael Jackson's fame stretched around the world. In Africa, he was a legend and an inspiration. NPR's Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton remembers meeting Jackson when he visited Ivory Coast ...