Africa’s story does not stop at colonization. It moves through it, then past it, into plans led by Africans and powered by the youngest population on Earth. If you are trying to make sense of ...

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by UCL researchers. Published in Science Advances, the ...

When people think about powerful ancient empires, they often imagine Rome, Greece, or Egypt. However, one of the strongest and most impressive kingdoms in the ancient world was located in East Africa.

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Until the events of the past week it seemed that the Wagner Group’s next outpost was more likely to be Burkina Faso than Belarus. But on June 27th Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in the latter, as part of a ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across ...

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Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. Published ...