History professor Joel Cabrita is one of five Stanford recipients of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, alongside economics ...

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Leo departed for Rome after a farewell ceremony at the Malabo airport, ending an 11-day, four-nation voyage that took him ...

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

An exhibition of contemporary African photography opened in Hangzhou, capital city of East China's Zhejiang province, on ...

Virginia Commonwealth University will spend $3.6 million on a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

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

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa ...

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

Zimbabwe has exported its first shipment of lithium sulphate from the Arcadia mine near Harare, marking a significant step in ...

When thinking about the wealthiest people to ever walk the earth, names like Jeff Bezos or John D. Rockefeller usually spring to mind. However, historians generally agree that a 14th-century West ...