A viral post had the web buzzing due to it displaying the true size of the African continent, dispelling popularized inaccuracies about it.

Long before modern monsters captured the public imagination, the Blemmyes, headless men with eyes on their chests, were already terrifying scholars, explorers, and cartographers across three ...

Drawing on diverse research and case studies, the book reframes African cities not just as sites of challenge, but as places of innovation, resilience and opportunity. We spoke to global health ...

A viral map is reshaping how people see Africa’s true size, sparking debate over the Mercator projection and why world maps ...

Fighting between M23 militia and Congolese forces spreads across South Kivu province, displacing half a million people and ...

Foreign investors and African capitalists are increasingly investing in Africa's infrastructure, minerals and businesses, ...

Ghana launched two crypto regulatory sandboxes under a single statute in three months. The U.S. market structure framework ...

The pontiff’s visit to Africa highlights the growing importance of the African church within global Catholicism and honors ...

Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition ...

Africa gave the world humanity. The world took almost everything else.” “Africa holds a substantial share of the resources that will sustain the ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, ...