Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...

Analysis - South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school ...

Festus Adegbola, a UB PhD student who is using remote-sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

More than 30 years after the collapse of the racist regime, its ideas echo once again ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species.

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Dr. Christopherson tells Action News that exposing kids to physical fitness and sports at a younger age can help them better understand their emotions in the future.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

Analysis - Global power dynamics in Africa are shifting, with China eclipsing the influence of the US and France. China has become Africa's single largest trading partner.

It is also a worrying sign that M23 ’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war.