African people

A study showed the Khoe and San peoples, of the sub-Sahara, pictured, are descendents of the earliest diversification event in the history of all humans, 100,000 years ago.

Woman from Mursi tribe holding her baby. Mursi tribe are probably the last groups in Africa amongst whom it is still the norm for women to wear large pottery or wooden discs or ‘plates’ in their...

*Bantu people of Africa are affirmed on this date in 1000 BCE. They are Black African speakers of Bantu languages of several hundred indigenous ethnic groups. The Bantu live in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa. Linguistically, these languages belong to the Southern Bantoid branch of Benue Congo, one of the language families grouped within the Niger-Congo phylum. It is generally accepted that the […]

Update: more pictures, plus some ethnohistory, in the comments.

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Perhaps you remember 5-year-old rising star Jare, 'the most beautiful girl in the world'? Well, the photographer behind her hauntingly beautiful portraits has blown up on the internet since then, with her other photography artworks being hailed for their unique aesthetic.

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There's nothing like candid everyday life realities to inspire street photographers. One of them is a talented photographer and a French language teacher, Grégory Escande, who captures cheerful moments as well as hardships of people living in Maputo, Mozambique, which is considered one of the poorest countries in the world.