Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

After moving from Sierra Leone to London, guest columnist Richard Bayliss received a proper diagnosis and care plan for his ...

Scientists have revealed the exact date for when a 'city-destroying' asteroid is set to smash into Earth. The asteroid was ...

Victor-Marie Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and essayist, died more than two centuries ago, but some of his immortal thoughts still resonate today. In 1885, he postulated, and I quote: “There is one ...

By Sola Odumosu History was made on the evening of Monday, January 27, in Lagos at the colourful Thisday Awards ...

Triple negative breast cancer wreaks a particularly heavy toll in certain regions and populations, with stark differences in both incidence and survival rates ...

Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent ...

The Spanish enclave of Melilla is one of the world’s most intriguing political anomalies. Despite being located in Morocco, ...

A Stanford Law professor this week terminated his representation of Meta Platforms in a major copyright case, citing his objection to “Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s descent into toxic ...

These so-called identity-by-descent or IBD segments are an exceptionally powerful signal for detecting and quantifying biological relatedness that was previously only accessible in high-quality ...