Diversity is the hallmark of South Africa. With an incredible array of contrasts, this country is known for its many ...

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...

The history of Africa has tended to rely on written evidence ... At certain points societies can choose to distort or misrepresent facts. "Most societies eulogise their heroes, idealise their ...

Caterpillar, the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

including to get the stylized facts right. Women’s large overrepresentation in agricultural tasks, combined with the existence of a gender gap in agricultural productivity and the need to boost Africa ...

A Brussels court has ordered Belgium to pay damages to five women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were abducted from their parents when they were young children Sonja Anderson Researchers think a ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism ... of the most horrific displays of state willful negligence in recent history.” The government’s handling of the situation was also called ...