Across the vast and diverse continent of Africa, those cultural roots were consistently and deliberately erased by colonial powers over a period of hundreds of years, yet the folk traditions of ...

Fifteen years after a female chimpanzee named Julie first stuck a blade of grass into her ear and started a hot new craze ...

Chimpanzees have been observed copying quirky social behaviours from one another – wearing grass in their ears and bottoms – despite these actions ...

At Chimfunshi, chimps don’t face predators or food shortages. That leaves them with more time to rest, groom, and invent.

LILONGWE-(MANA)-President Lazarus Chakwera has called on Malawians to uphold unity, peace, and love as the country heads ...

Chimpanzees adopt pointless fads, just like humans, researchers have found. The animals were seen wearing grass and sticks in their ears, after copying the habit from other chimps. The practice serves ...

It has become an almost predictable rhythm in many African political speeches, panel discussions, and media narratives that whenever a country is struggling with economic collapse, political disunity, ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

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South African civic movements unite in Midrand, demanding the repatriation of former Zambian president Edgar Chagwa Lungu's ...

Activists claim that the late Zambian president Edgar Lungu was in South Africa on a Zimbabwean passport, igniting a ...