Should African people be called black – or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it was chosen by ...

The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective. Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the ...

The next 100 years will not be Africa's century, but neither will they see the continent stagnate and fall behind the Northern Hemisphere. History never works that simply. Editorial Standards ...

An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi.Mariner Books, 532 pages. The famed American journalist John Gunther opened Inside Africa, his expansive history of the continent in the evening of ...

Africa seems to be the only continent today that is regularly referred to as a "country." It bristles me every time I hear it said. It’s reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s chatter with the press ...

Modern-day Africa was the keystone of Gondwana, the aggregated mass of southern continents that co-existed for nearly 400m years. That supercontinent has since split apart, creating the land ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading African priest and intellectual, Father Stan Chu Ilo says Africa’s history can be explained as “a history of extraversion and violence,”- the idea that the ...

N ot to pick on Sarah Palin, but it’s troubling for all Americans when there are rumors that a former Vice Presidential candidate thinks Africa is a country, not a continent. Africa is a blurry ...