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A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

East Africa has rewritten marathon history as Sabastian Sawe produced a stunning breakthrough at the London Marathon, ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

Kenya's Sabastian Sawe become the first athlete to win a marathon in competitive race conditions, in under two hours.

History’s first American pope visited Africa against the backdrop of his calls for peace that have sparked a feud with U.S.

As viral videos of migrant harassment spark outrage in Accra, Pretoria is forced to confront a damaging reality: it cannot ...

Two childhood friends took a small and niche electronics store in Pretoria West and turned it into a must-shop for tinkerers ...

Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...

The DIA’s lead curator of African American art discusses what it means to move a collection from the margins of a museum to ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations ...