In west Africa, it's common for families to foster children informally. This helps ease the burden on parents and can give children from poorer families a chance to improve their lives. An estimated ...

Experts believe more than a million African artifacts are being held outside of the African continent, scattered mostly throughout Europe and North America in museums and private collections. Many ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — For 40 years, the African Children's Choir and its parent organization, Music for Life, have transformed the lives of impoverished children across Africa by providing access to ...

“I never went to a movie until Three2Six took us. I never went to the zoo until Three2Six took us,” says 24-year-old Debbie, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Most of my childhood ...

The annual African American Children’s Book Fair (AACBF) returned to Philadelphia for the its 33rd year. The book fair is one of the oldest and largest book fairs for African American children in the ...

In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 10 percent of children die before they turn 5 years old (SN: 8/3/22); in 2022 alone, around 2.8 million young children died in the entire region. Most are ...

On a roadside in Central Uganda, a woman selling charcoal says she barely earns enough to buy food for herself and her eight children. She is determined for her children to go to school and says she ...

Anna Adima received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. a new breed of black Europeans, who began to despise their own skin and background. Publishers and African writers were quick to realise the gap ...

According to a 2022 Unicef study, more than 70% of South African children aged nine to 17 use the internet daily, but fewer than half have received digital literacy education. This means our children ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. -“It was all interesting. It was all fun. It was all something new that the kids have been able to pick up,” said Jim Luzze a tour leader for the Children African’s Choir. There are ...

South Africa doesn’t need to copy/paste the Australian ban, but it does need a coherent national strategy for child safety ...

Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the European Commission. Wolfgang Preiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...