For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new campaign is ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Scientists observing deep tectonic activity in the region believe Africa is gradually splitting into two landmasses. If this ...

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 ...

Although views to the contrary have occasionally been aired – sometimes underpinned by what seems to be solid empirical research hinting at African involvement in the drawing up of the continent’s ...

Africa is facing severe droughts, with large areas across the continent struggling with the devastating impacts of persistent ...