Black hair is more than just strands of keratin. The afros, locs, braids, twists, and Bantu knots are a cultural archive, a ...

Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society and has evolved over time. While traditional ...

If you thought the headache of wedding preparations involves finding the right décor, vendors, cake tastings, fundis who ...

Discover the powerful stories of Wisconsin women who broke barriers and shaped history. From activism to art, these pioneers ...

Mary Afan, denied inheritance to her father's land by her brothers, transformed personal injustice into a continent-wide ...

Mark Brown/Getty Images Women's boxing is divided between 17 weight classes, from heavyweight to atomweight. The four major sanctioning bodies, WBO, IBF, WBA and WBC have champions in most of the ...

Kenya boasts about 7,200 millionaires, with Nigeria coming in second with 8,200 millionaires, while South Africa leads with 37,400 millionaires. Out of these numbers, women have not been left behind, ...

Southern Africa’s desert nation of Namibia swears in its first woman president Friday after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power.

reaching the highest office in her country nearly 60 years after she joined the liberation movement fighting for independence from apartheid South Africa.

Young lives in Douglasville, Georgia. She is among the millions of Black women who often turned to chemical relaxers to straighten their hair - a widely-used method to meet a beauty standard in ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job ...

Later at a press conference she talked about the significance of being the first woman and African to lead the IOC. “I’m extremely proud of both of those different identities that make up me ...