Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

Join me as I open up another antique map and see what new lessons it has to teach me!

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War I, a map closer to what we now know as Africa would emerge. Historians point out that unlike what is widely believed, the Berlin ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

U.S.A.I.D. The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s aid cuts. The United ...

After a lengthy intermission to make way for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, the continent is now back on track for the World Cup, which means it's time to look at the state of play.

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A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

An estimated 12.5 million people were forcibly transported on ships across the Atlantic, trafficked around from Europe to Africa ... and power,” she says. In 1710 two Danish slave ships ...