The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...

South Africa’s powerful Xhosa and Zulu nations sealed an important union as Nelson Mandela’s great-grandnephew and King Goodwill Zwelithini’s daughter wed. The marriage ceremony of Tembu Chief Nfundo ...

There was a traffic snarl-up in the streets leading to the Anglican Cathedral in Umtata in the Eastern Cape as the cavalcade of top-of-the-range luxury vehicles accompanied by wailing sirens whisked ...

The women who created the artwork in Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence “paint” with beads. Each “canvas” is composed of a myriad of tiny glass beads sewn into black cloth stretched ...

Jill E. Kelly's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and Fulbright. The passing away of South Africa’s Zulu king Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in March 2021 refocused ...

Jochen S. Arndt received funding from the Social Sciences Research Council, American Historical Association, and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. The beautiful thing about ...