This is why braided hairstyles for black girls can be worn during any season. The flexibility of black hair has been a blessing for every African. Mothers teach their children how to braid ...

To help you choose we've put together a list of 150 rare, common and traditional African names for both girls and boys. Our list includes names that are both long or short, derived from countries all ...

Pretoria Girls High School suspended 12 learners following an expose about a group of white pupils who allegedly created a ...

The story, published a year ago, was about how the now 28-year-old from South Africa's Eastern Cape province was helping girls unable to afford sanitary pads by distributing free ones to schools ...

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policies or pledges—to expand free education from pre-school to secondary. Yet, African governments have a lot more work to do. At least 51 million girls are out of school across Africa.

Payton McGriff and her nonprofit, Style Her Empowered – known as SHE – are removing barriers to education for 1,500 girls in the African country of Togo while providing opportunities for local women.

and South Africa. Their AWOME (Accelerating Women-Owned Micro-Enterprises) program is a capacity-building initiative that provides training for women micro-entrepreneurs like Sunny-Girl ...

The "Preamble" and "Articles" of the Free African Society (FAS) provide a succinct portrait of the organization, the first of its kind in Philadelphia, and probably the first in America.

African football's governing body will be debt-free next year as a result of improved governance, says secretary general Veron Mosengo-Omba. Nigeria's four-time African champion Anuoluwapo Opeyori ...

Capitalism gets a bad rap these days. Millions of Americans—Democrat and Republican—are frustrated with the U.S. economy, and many blame the free market. It’s simply not true. At the heart ...