A friend who lives in New York City was all over social media in the wake of the 4.8 earthquake that hit the east... Through his Twitter account (X), British journalist Karl Penhaul reported being ...

Egyptian-spoken Arabic, or Masri, belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is most commonly spoken in Egypt. However, people also speak this language in other Middle Eastern countries ...

It is a Chadic group of the Afro-Asiatic family. Islam highly influences Hausa beliefs and customs. Pilgrimage and commerce contributed to the propagation of the language. It is tonal — the ...

Distinct from the contemporary Egyptian Arabic spoken today, Ancient Egyptian is a unique Afro-Asiatic language that doesn’t really share similarities with other languages in the family (like ...

In July this year, New York joined California as the second state in the US to ban racial discrimination on the basis of natural hair textures. Now there are petitions to bring this law to the UK ...

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The first reaction from every friend or family member that I’ve taken to the beach in Guanacaste has been, “There’s nobody here!” Where I... Pope Francis will be present on Saturday night at the ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

The official language is ENGLISH. FANTE (FANTI, MFANTSE), AKUAPEM (AKWAPEM TWI, AKUAPIM, AKWAPI), ASANTE (ASHANTE TWI, ASANTI, ACHANTI), AGONA, DANKYIRA, ASEN, AKYEM ...

Out of this complex picture, the present paper addresses the typological properties of Celtic which are relatively rare within Indo-European and traditionally assumed to originate from an Afro-Asiatic ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Multi-instrumentalist Cheikh Ibra Fam rhythmically expresses a free and futuristic sound that intertwines with his Senegalese heritage, and he’s bringing all the African ...

Quilombola communities in the Sapê do Norte region of Brazil’s Espírito Santo state have been reporting toxic crop dusting by pulp and paper company Suzano on its eucalyptus plantations ...