Africa is no longer a peripheral arena—it’s becoming a central platform for Moscow’s global strategy. The West should beware.

Move over fish and olive oil — and make way for plantain and fermented banana drink. According to a recent study in the journal Nature Medicine, traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

Last week, a meeting at the United Nations brought together the descendants of enslaved people and slave owners. The attendees discussed ways to compensate former British colonies in the Caribbean for ...

Several tribes in the Upper Midwest are uniting to aid the search for Renzo Bullhead, a missing 20-year-old United Tribes Technical College student. Bullhead, Standing Rock Lakota, was last seen ...

Such attacks have become common in north-central Nigeria, where gunmen exploit security lapses to launch deadly raids on farmers in a fight over land resources.

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...