"He really existed," said the lead excavator after identifying royal-era fragments in the refuse.

“At the beginning, I thought we were digging a deep hole for ourselves, as people feel so passionately about this character,” says Angus Gibson, the director and co-creator of South Africa’s ...

An old video showing Eswatini’s King Mswati III arriving in the UAE with a large entourage has resurfaced online, going viral in July 2025. The footage has reignited conversations around monarchy, ...

Bolivia may be better known for its llamas, snow-capped Andean peaks and indigenous populist President than as a seat of African royalty. Yet Bolivia is home to the only known African monarch in the ...

The document turns Nubian King Qashqash from a semi-legendary figure into a historically verifiable monarch ...

Host Allison Keyes is joined by NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton for a peek into her reporter's notebook and some of the stories coming out of the continent. These stories include ...