A common motif of mermaid legends is that enslaved people who went overboard transformed into water creatures along with their descendants. In African cosmologies, “people who were lost to the ...

Photograph: Zander Botha/Courtesy of Black Mermaid Foundation “In South Africa, black people are displaced from the ocean, it is a haunted place, and its history wraps around this narrative ...

South Africa recently held its first Mermaid Olympics known as Merlympics. Blairgowrie-based mermaids Cathleen van Eeden and Janet Rudman dominated the Merlympics coming in first and second place ...

Across the continent of Africa, mermaid-like water deities such as Yemaya and Mami Wata reflect the powerful connection between human communities and their environment. Among the most well-known ...

The woman, a professional mermaid from South Africa, had seconds to react with her quick thinking saving her from a potentially deadly and tragic situation. The terrifying moment unfolded inside a ...

South Africa's first Black female free-diving instructor Zandi, aka "The Black Mermaid," is making sure kids worldwide can discover the wonders of the sea with her new children's book ...

Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, Black mermaids were swimming their way through African folklore. Natasha Bowen wrote "Skin of the Sea" and “Soul ...

“Mermaid stories,” she writes, “have been told throughout the African continent for millenniums. Mermaids are not just part of the imagination, either, but a part of the living culture.

Ndhlovu founded the Black Mermaid Foundation in 2020 ... where she has just attended the 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) recognition week for 2022, hosted at CNN’s ...

A “mermaid” nearly drowned in an aquarium after her tail got stuck on some coral. The incident, which happened on Nov 25 at the Randburg Shopping Mall in South Africa, was captured on video ...