Bambara groundnut: new maps show where southern African farmers can grow this drought-tolerant crop

Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other ...
Mongabay

Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Thousands of South Africans, including Indigenous communities, mobilized in a national protest last Sunday against Shell’s planned seismic survey ...

Indigenomics Institute and the Indigenous Professions of Southern Africa Establish Indigenomics AFRICA

The Indigenomics Institute and Indigenous Professions of Southern Africa (IPROSA) have signed a pioneering Indigenomics Big Sister Collaboration Agreement, forming Indigenomics AFRICA. The Agreement ...
YES! Magazine

Another Legal Win for South Africa’s Indigenous Communities

“Wild Coast communities are using the courts to fight for the right to determine what happens in their territory and strengthening their hand in a country heavily marred by colonialism.” In a court ...
Forbes

An Indigenous Beer Style Crowned Best In Africa

Indigenous beers have been part of African culture for centuries. For the first time, the beer style known as umqombothi, which was blended with a farmhouse ale, won the African Beer Cup. Nick Smith, ...
Grist

Indigenous Ogiek win ‘landmark’ reparations ruling from African Court

The Republic of Kenya must pay the Indigenous Ogiek people reparations for decades of illegal evictions from their ancestral land in the Mau Forest. That’s according to a ruling from the African Court ...
Grist

Indigenous leaders say Africa’s conservation plan puts lives at risk

Last week, leaders from more than fifty African countries convened for the first Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss solutions to escalating climate and biodiversity crises. Held in ...
National Catholic Reporter

In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts

Bernard Messono today lives by the roadside. A 28-year-old Indigenous Baka man from Elango village in Cameroon's East Region, he was forced out of his natural home in the forest by encroaching logging ...
Forbes

African Indigenous Crops Fuel A Growing Food Business Boom

In Lagos, Nigeria, where the hum of the city mingles with the aroma of freshly baked bread, Chef Juliet Aigbe, known affectionally as “Chef Juls,” slides a grain-free wedding cake into a large ...
The Conversation

Africa indigenous fruit trees offer major benefits. But they’re being ignored

The doum palm is an indigenous tree in Kenya which produces edible fruit. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Indigenous fruits have been collected from the wild for centuries for human ...

India’s yogasana leaves China, South Africa in awe at BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Demonstration Games 2026

The BRICS event at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in Ahmedabad was a unique one-day initiative that brought together 160 ...