An intriguing breakdown of a key geographic gap and how its position gives it surprising strategic and economic importance in ...

Resources and economy. Exploring the wealth of Africa's natural resources and the history of foreign intervention in Africa's ...

What is “Africa?” Nomenclature raises difficult issues. Maps in school rooms show “Africa“ as a distinct continent, the second largest in the world. But the U.S. Department of State assigns North ...

Africa’s history wasn’t shaped only by leaders, wars, or politics—geography played a brutal role. This video breaks down the natural barriers that made trade, travel, and large-scale development far ...

NINE THOUSAND years ago the Sahara desert was a grassland, inhabited by hunters who made rock paintings of hippos and giraffes. For a millennium before the 16th century a flourishing trade carried ...