The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

This African country isn’t on any map, but it’s full of surprises! For 50 hours, I explored its culture, people, and mysteries that defy convention. Discover what makes this place so unique and ...

Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

In Africa, a new wave of thematic cartographers are flexing their creative muscles, using maps to highlight social, political ...

one area remains as “Africa’s last colony”, leaving a black hole in global data. Western Sahara is effectively no mans land. It often appears un-labelled on world maps. Moreover, GDP ...

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom and equality, "the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Free blacks and ...

To develop the new map, Oelze and her team combined previously available strontium isotope data for parts of south and east Africa with data from Angola that the core team had published in 2023 ...

For the first time ever, Henry Lovejoy, a CU Boulder history professor, has mapped the boundaries of a fallen African kingdom best known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. During its reign, the ...