In the Luo tribe of East Africa, widows follow a unique tradition of sleeping beside their husband’s dead body. The ritual signals emotional closure and determines when they may remarry. Scroll down ...

On a warm afternoon in a remote village, with the sound of drums filling the surrounding, suddenly meeting people happily carrying knife-cut scars all over their bodies is not a rare sight to witness.

Many body modifications have been used by Africans for centuries; many of these modifications have been forgotten or gone into extinction, while others still hold true today. Lip plating is a body ...

Africans are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people in the world. Most people would think Africans are mostly dark skinned, with brown eyes and black hair. But deep in the South Pacific, ...