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 ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

Europe no longer functions this way. With the creation of the European Union (EU), European countries enjoy the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital. Yet, the same powers that ...

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, UNEP Deputy Executive Director, says AMCEN marks 40 years of African leadership in environmental action, uniting for policy, green growth, and a resilient, inclusive future.

Discover how animals survived the African megatsunami 73,000 years ago! A student-friendly guide to a massive wave that ...

In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that ...

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

DAKAR, Senegal, 7 April 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world maps—has ...

Oldest Human Skulls Outside Africa Might Not Be Homo Erectus After All Homo georgicus may be the most important human you've never heard of.

Rather than an obstacle, human rights are a key and inalienable cornerstone of democratic progress in Africa—as they are in other parts of the world.