According to a new study published on Monday, June 10, African elephants refer to one another with "individually specific calls" Getty Humans aren't the only animals to use names. According to a new ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

The struggle of having an African name is real. Africans assign names to their children according to the happening of a certain situation, or after their grandfathers/mothers as a way to keep their ...

African elephants use "names" to communicate with each other in the same way that humans do, researchers have discovered. A new study, carried out by Colorado State University scientists who analyzed ...

Learning how Eswatini and Lesotho returned to native names from colonial ones, Swaziland and Basutoland, respectively. And finally getting into how Namibia shed its colonial - and overly descriptive - ...

In many African societies today, there is a curious preoccupation with colonial names—both personal and geographical. To directly receive articles from Tendai Ruben ...