African musician playing the drum.        Almost every village of Africa has its artists. There are wood carvers, smiths, house builders, an...

       Early in the morning the Bushman camp is astir. The women get up first and start the fire and prepare breakfast, usually leftovers fr...

        The Ovimbundu, who live high on the plateau of central Angola in West Africa, are called the 14 People of the Fog” because of the fo...

        There is a special sound early in the morning in the villages along the lower Congo. It is the rattle of ankle rings as the women st...

The Masai throws a spear.        South of the Sahara lies the high northern plateau, the home of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa. ...

Photo of a Tuareg woman by Alain Elorza. Tuareg Libya by Sasi Harib.         Shame enters the family that tills the soil” is a proverb of th...