When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In his groundbreaking book, The African Origins of Our Faith: Pan-African ...

Problem I. Africa and Egypt. Egypt and Negro Africa / by C.G. Seligman -- The Hamitic hypothesis : its origin in time / by Edith R. Sanders -- Kingship, archaeology, and historical myth / Merrick ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent remarks on human ancestry have reignited discussion about Africa’s central place in the story of human origins and the political implications of that scientific consensus.

With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in today’s United States.

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin ...

There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But there remain many uncertainties and competing theories about where, when, and how. In a paper published today in Nature, an ...