Footwear is another area where silica gel is making waves. Shoes with silica gel soles provide better grip on wet surfaces ...

Award-winning Ghanaian actress Benedicta Gafah has received negative criticisms about her black outfit and waist beads at the ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and connect with others who share the same vision for transforming Africa’s ...

Hand-woven and dyed fabrics, elaborate gold and beaded jewelry, women with hennaed hands and feet, and military men in suits ...

For several decades, a team of researchers have been carrying out excavations at old cemeteries and villages at sites in central Mali and eastern Senegal. Over the years they’ve come across a handful ...

As the Trump administration exerts pressure on countries to aid in its mass deportation efforts, some nations in Africa have agreed, prompting legal battles. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Reporting from ...

Going back in time, African beadwork is a centuries-old craft, which has evolved into creating beautiful designs with colorful beads. More than just a craft, African beadwork reflects cultural ...

Ralph Ziman estimates he was 13 or 14 years old the first time he had a gun pulled on him in anger. It was the mid 1970s, and he was with friends outside a shopping mall in the northern suburbs of his ...

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Maria Lekidayo, a star beader, among other women from Melako Conservancy, addresses the press in Marsabit. The rhythmic click of beads against thread has taken on new meaning in Pamela Morijo's hands.

Under the leadership of Thenjiwe Pretty Nkogatsi, the Annointed Hands collective in South Africa produces intricate panels of beadwork—carefully designed and envisioned by Ziman—which are then shipped ...