In the Asante kingdom, goldsmiths made ornaments to show their king was rich. This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller. Mansa Musa is wearing a golden crown and holds a large gold coin in ...

With Morocco and Algeria ballooning their military budgets in anticipation of an all-out war, one area remains as “Africa’s last colony”, leaving a black hole in global data. Western Sahara ...

because the geology of western central Africa is so diverse that it makes this a perfect landscape to use this method." To develop the new map, Oelze and her team combined previously available ...