A new biography of Audley Moore shows how pivotal the overlooked activist’s work was to 20th-century Black-liberation efforts ...

A look at some of the key teams, players and potential plot lines from the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations which begins on ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a statement on the research. “This framework better explains existing genetic, ...

By 2050, Africa will represent one in four people on Earth. The continent’s economic potential, alongside its global diaspora ...

The continent has a vast history spanning thousands of years, and one place has fended off invaders for the most part.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

Last year, a team of American diplomats from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center traveled to two dozen countries ...

Josephine Irandwanahafi sits in a small, musty provisions shop off the main road in Bweyeye, a border town that marks the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Professor Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, "Slow Poison." The book is a firsthand report on ...