As part of its milestone 10th anniversary celebration, the Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF), in collaboration ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

As I wrote in several articles, my sojourn in Europe was a culture shock on many levels . The most profound was how Europeans ...

Mali has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines abandoned by their previous owners, the government ...

Five years after taking power by force, Mali's junta leader, General Assimi Goita, has abandoned his promise of a democratic ...

Mali's military authorities on Thursday granted the junta chief a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as ...

Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, is often cited as the richest person in all of human history. In this documentary, we explore how his empire gained unimaginable wealth ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...