Celebrated for her captivating stage presence and genre-defying sound, Maleh has entered a bold new phase of her career. Her recent hit single, Dithapelo, serves as the cornerstone of this artistic ...

The Holy Father has encouraged the members of the Lesotho Catholic Bishops Conference (LCBC) who are meeting for their ...

South Africa's Zulu king has raised eyebrows by using a highly derogatory term for foreigners and saying they must all leave ...

An organisation in Lesotho has submitted a petition to the South African Parliament to scrap passport requirements at the country's borders.

A human rights organisation in Lesotho has petitioned South Africa's Parliament to remove passport requirements between the two countries, saying it is "an apartheid-era control mechanism [that] ...

Sheena Shah and Matthias Brenzinger discuss their recording of Mathabang Hlaela speaking in the endangered language of siPhuthi with her as young girls watch, in the village of Ha Sekhobe in Daliwe ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from DSTI-NRF GENUS (Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences) and African Origins Platform. Emese M Bordy receives funding from DSTI-NRF GENUS (Centre of Excellence in ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...