There are 43 schools for the Deaf across the country. Of these, 38 use South African Sign Language (SASL) as the language of teaching and learning.
In southern Africa, colonial European ideas encountered older indigenous beliefs about one-horned creatures.
This month’s selection is Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus.
As the summer of 2023 unfolds, we reflect on Juneteenth’s powerful and transformative celebration.
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come.
Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated.
Growing up in Cairo’s Nubian community, we children didn’t hear about Cleopatra, but about Amanirenas: a warrior queen who ruled the Kingdom of Kush during the first century B.C.E.
July takes it to the next level, with the ‘Dynamic Five’ synonymous with Independence Day: Food, fireworks, fun, family and the Fourth!
Evidence shows that taking part in art programs has many therapeutic benefits.
Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 – became a federal holiday in 2021.
