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 ...

Africa in History: Six historical debates from ... Choose a subject, or even two, and email us with your opinions, theories and stories. Please state the country in which you are resident.

Listen to Africa on the Eve of Colonialism, the seventeenth programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie Listen to Partition & Resistance , the ...

Listen to The Berbers Of North Africa, the third programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie ...

Listen to The Mfecane, the eighteenth programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie Listen to Apartheid, the twenty third programme in the BBC landmark ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly ... boom in the world lived well. Many stories are told of the opulence of the ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

Why has the case against the Kenyan police officers allegedly involved in the death of six-month old Samantha Pendo been delayed yet again? Seven years on, her parents are still seeking justice after ...

Alan Kasujja is joined by three BBC colleagues in South, East and West Africa to unpack the biggest issues which impacted the continent in 2024. With presenter Alan Kasujja (@Kasujja), Africa ...