Traditional beekeeping in Africa is a cultural treasure under threat from climate change, habitat loss, and competition from ...

Olive farming in Africa is a millennia-old tradition; in fact, some of the farms in North Africa are more than two thousand ...

The history of Africa has tended to rely on written ... Initially emphasis was placed on the ancient African empires and kingdoms and on the battles for independence. But since then, African ...

“The current sample of ancient genomes in Africa is still very small ... What other stories in human history have just been completely changed by our modern world?” Sophie Fessl is a freelance science ...

In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to William & Mary to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of ...

Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the ...

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 ...

Ancient Egyptians were especially devoted ... is often referred to as the most beautiful woman in history. Better known as African red tea, Rooibos is a plant found exclusively in South Africa.

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King ...

In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to William & Mary to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of ...