Fela Kuti is the first African pop star to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he ...
NPR

He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...
Los Angeles Times

Tyla won the first African music performance Grammy. Now, ‘I really want people to go deeper.’

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...
CNN

Africa’s ‘cryptic’ golden cat is so rare, no one knows how many there are. AI is changing that

The first time Mwezi Mugerwa saw the African golden cat, he didn’t know what it was. While reviewing camera trap footage at Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, the conservation ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Journey to Discover an African Homeland

New generations of Black Americans are taking intimate tours that connect them with the lands and cultures their ancestors were forced to leave behind By Rosalind Cummings-Yeates Photograph by Shawn ...
The New York Times

How Do People of Middle Eastern and North African Descent Identify?

A background illustration showing a watercolor painting with many overlapping people. As the page scrolls, the illustration transitions into irregular shaped circles of various colors that sometimes ...
The New York Times

It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’

See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google I’m no fan of ...
The Conversation

African countries lost control to foreign mining companies – the 3 steps that allowed this to happen

Processing facilities in Tenke Fungurume Mine, one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, in south-eastern DRC. Photo by Emmet Livingstone/AFP via Getty Images Within a few years of ...
Forbes

The Missing History Of Africa In American Education

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...
The Conversation

African immigrant students draw on family and community strengths in quest for college

Black African immigration to the U.S. has exploded over the past few decades. Today, there are about 2 million Black African immigrants – up from 184,000 in 1990. Black African immigrants now make up ...