In South African Tribe, Boys Box Their Way to Manhood. A photographer explores the Venda people’s bare-knuckle boxing tradition, a rite of passage for boys as young as nine.

Africa’s Great Rift Valley stretches across 3,500 miles of territory from the shores of Eritrea to the red soil of Mozambique, and is recognized by scientists as the birthplace of humankind.

Killings of people with albinism also occur in South Africa, although these are less common. In February, a 67-year-old traditional healer there was convicted of murdering a 20-year-old woman with ...

An African-origin ethnic tribe of about 20,000 people has been living in near total obscurity in India for centuries. ... young boys and girls were playing soccer under the guidance of trainers, ...