I decided it was time to find out about the true state of scholarship in Japan pertaining to Africans and the African diaspora, and the people behind it.
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a U.N. report Thursday proclaiming "the scales have tipped. Not only are new HIV infections and deaths declining, but more people than ever are ...
Eight of the world's biggest aid groups are joining together in a new campaign to get more attention in the U.S. for what the United Nations calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis in more than 70 years. More than 20 million people are at risk ...
Pope Francis gave the Catholic church five new cardinals Wednesday, somberly instructing them to act as servants and not "princes" in a world where innocents are dying from wars and terrorism, slavery persists and refugee camps often are living hells. Reflecting Francis' attention to the ...
Researchers have long believed that humans split from apes some 5 million years ago in Africa, but a study Monday suggests it happened in Europe far earlier than that. Just where the last common ancestor between chimps — our closest relatives — and humans existed ...
Sometimes the most surprising and endearing memories are created when you least expect it.
Africa's greatest hope may be in the commercial advance of technology.
It has been a decade since Liliane last saw her little girl. She fled Africa in fear for her life, leaving behind everything she knew and loved in the hope of a fresh start in Japan. Today, she scrapes a living from dead-end jobs, and ...
Greece's port police said Monday at least 16 people, including women and children, have died in a suspected migrant boat sinking off the Aegean island of Lesbos. The bodies of six women, a child and two men were recovered in Greek waters, while the Turkish ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived Sunday for a short visit to Djibouti, a strategic Horn of Africa nation which hosts Washington's only permanent military base on the continent. Camp Lemonnier, home to some 4,000 U.S. soldiers and contractors, is vital to U.S. military operations ...
They are homely, buck-toothed, pink, nearly hairless and just plain weird, but one of the many odd traits of rodents called naked mole-rats that live in subterranean bliss in the deserts of East Africa could someday be of great benefit to people. Scientists said on ...
With an otaku's giddiness, Baye McNeil speaks with Nsenda Lukumwena, an authority on Japanese buildings and head of an architectural firm in Kobe.
