Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Explore African cuisine, science, history & folklore — where plants heal, stories guide, and the kitchen connects us to our ...

Captain JAMES BRIGGS (of Dighton, Mass.), seeks stout and able-bodied Seamen for a swift and lucrative trading voyage aboard the sloop HOPE. · ROUTE: Providence → WINDWARD COAST of AFRICA → DANISH ...

Most readers meet Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes’s cool logic. Fewer realize that Africa shaped both the detective’s creator and the knight he became. As a young ship’s doctor on the West ...

Long ago, in a vibrant African village nestled among rolling hills and whispering baobab trees, there lived a clever weaver named Kalifu. Kalifu was renowned for his intricate tapestries, each telling ...

Have you ever heard of a whale being compared to an emperor from an ancient kingdom? That's precisely what Herman Melville does in his famous novel Moby-Dick. The Great Ethiopian of the Deep. In ...

The Whale as King: Africa, Empire, and Power in Melville's Moby-Dick Have you ever heard of a whale being compared to an emperor from an ancient kingdom? That's precisely what Herman Melville does in ...

Tolkien occasionally hints at loose correspondences—Middle-earth as a poetic name for the inhabited world, or “west/east/south” in compass terms—but he never locks his map to our continents. This is ...

In Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa, cultural traditions have long shaped unique standards of beauty, particularly for women. The preference for fuller-figured women, celebrated as ...

For students fascinated by animals and Earth’s wild history, the African megatsunami is a jaw-dropping tale. About 73,000 years ago, a massive chunk of Fogo volcano in Cape Verde—160 cubic kilometers ...

On July 5, 2025, eight men were deported from the United States to South Sudan following a prolonged legal battle. The men, immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam, and one from South ...