Famous Taung Child fossil from South Africa is 2.58 million years old, ... about 70km south-west of Pretoria. ... Evidence is building that people were in the Americas 23,000 years ago.

The British steamer had arrived in the Mersey with late intelligence from the West Coast of Africa. The British war-vessel Alecto had sailed from Lagos on the 10th of July, in search of a ...

It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who ...