Kenyans are reminiscing about the work of author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the U.S. They recall Ngũgĩ’s ...

Ngugi was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail in Kenya, exile and illness ...

Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing ...

Discover Jabari Jefferson's 'Sacred Spaces' solo exhibition at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum. A tribute to African ...

Whether you want to indulge in food, music, fireworks or history, Juneteenth 2025 in Indianapolis will not disappoint.

"I want readers to know that choosing yourself isn’t selfish — it’s necessary," says author Yrsa Daley-Ward of her debut ...

African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

Recently, the Trump administration froze over $2.2 billion in grants and contracts from Harvard University, to quash ...

In seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, she explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid and ...

In March 1979, police arrested novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his co-author Ngugi wa Mirie for "drinking after hours" and ...

Researchers put seven leading AI models through graduate-level history exams, but even the best-performing model performed ...