Besides pastoral nomads, some of Africa’s indigenous peoples are hunter-gatherers, including the San people of southern Africa, who are known as “bush people” in Namibia, Angola and Botswana.

And cradled in Ghana, the gateway to Africa, are diverse groups of indigenous peoples who are a beautifully woven pattern in our identity as a people. At a recently held high-level meeting in New ...

In this report from the ground, African indigenous leaders share with UNESCO their experiences of the onset of the global pandemic in their communities. They speak of the generosity, solidarity and ...

Indigenous peoples: The dispossessed For 350 years, they have been derided by white settlers and denied access to their homelands. Now South Africa's Khoekhoen tribe are on the brink of a settlement.

Renowned Professor of African History, Toyin Falola, has called on African nations to urgently integrate indigenous knowledge systems into their educational frameworks. He argued that true ...

Morocco's Amazigh, the indigenous people of North Africa, hit hard deadly quake NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Brahim el Guabli, associate professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College, about the ...

In June, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights handed down a landmark ruling that ordered the Kenyan government to pay the Indigenous Ogiek people reparations for years of illegal ...

The development, still under construction, sits on sacred land in Cape Town. But some Indigenous leaders have allied with the developers, prompting a debate over who speaks for First Nations people.

This is a photo of an extended Coloured family with roots in Cape Town, Kimberley, and Pretoria (South Africa). The photo was taken in Thornton, Cape Town at Christmas 2000.