Part of the larger Sahara, Tenere Desert is famous for its vast sand dunes and sparse vegetation. Located in Niger, it ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

Thousands expected for Art in Wilder Park presented by the Elmhurst Art Museum, this year featuring Chicago artist Bernard ...

These books by Akwaeke Emezi, A.E. Osworth and Isaac Fellman demonstrate just how much genre fiction is capable of.

Over the past 20 years, the Nigerian-born Nkanga, 50, has explored the idea of rock, and by extension the land that sheds it, ...

Taxidermist Ray Murawski moved his hand along the back of a black bear rug he had laid out on a table in the back of his shop ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at Oxford University meant to ...

A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming ...

A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained men in gold mines, and a pregnant ...

When Walter Payton was drafted out of Jackson State in 1975, skeptics questioned if a running back from a small, overlooked ...