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Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year ...
A novel, worker-owned cooperative serving the language needs of New York City’s growing African immigrant community from within is officially up and running. Afrilingual claims to be the first ...
The African milk tree (Euphorbia trigona) goes by many names, including cathedral cactus, friendship cactus, and good luck cactus. Despite having multiple names containing the word cactus, it’s ...
Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
African descendants in the U.S. have been speaking varieties of English, today known as African American Language (AAL), for many centuries. Here's what you should know.
Talking Black in America — Roots. Special | 57m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. An exploration of the ties between African and American culture and language. Talking Black in America ...
Baobab is a superfood with growing global demand – that’s bad news for the sacred African tree. Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological ...
An ancient African tree is providing a new 'superfood' but local harvesters are barely surviving. 1 / 11. Zimbabwe Tree of Life. The sun sets behind a baobab tree, known as the tree of life, ...
Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year ...