BEFORE World War II few Africans had any conception of Africa as a whole or of themselves as Africans. They thought of themselves instead as Kikuyu, Buganda Bahutu, or men of any other of the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — African tribal culture has had a strong influence on high fashion, from athletic wear to couture runway shows. The unique threadwork not only produces these vibrant, sought-after fabrics ...

This story began as an experiment: to be dropped off alone with one of Africa’s most remote tribes and live exactly as they ...

THE bitter war in Biafra (see THE WORLD) is a symbol of the continent’s divided soul, and the most discouraging example so far of a profound impasse that is crippling many of Black Africa’s 30 newly ...

There was a time, not that long ago, when African leaders insisted that it was politically incorrect to discuss tribalism. Tribalism was the face of old Africa that the modernisers, inheriting their ...

Nervous Sotho youths arm themselves as they spread the word: ”The Zulus are coming.” Angry Zulu men surround suspicious outsiders and force them to speak at the point of a spear. The wrong language or ...

This year’s Frieze New York includes a few faces that will be unfamiliar to most contemporary art collectors. For its sixth edition, which opens to VIPs on Thursday, the fair has admitted tribal art ...

The designs on African tribal ceramics are often symbolic, telling stories or representing important aspects of community ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the ...

All the trouble in South Africa is not simply black and white; it can also be black v. black. All over the land, and most particularly in the ramshackle black suburbs that now ring the great white ...