AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the resemblance ...

Plotting the course: I was invited to photograph a group of German geologists who were using very detailed GPS readings to measure how tectonic-plate movement is shifting the Rwenzori Mountains.

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...