A country that doesn’t exist on a map? It’s real, and we spent 50 hours there exploring its hidden wonders. Get ready for an ...

By Robert D. Kaplan and Mark Schroeder There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions.

Serving as a public source of Africa-related information, the U.S. Africa Command website, updated daily, hosts the latest news and updates on command activities and initiatives.

A map of West Africa from 1747 refers to the region as "Negroland". The most recent map in the collection from 1915 shows the town plan for Dakar, Senegal's capital. The collection, which can be ...

Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal are among the invited leaders. The news of the summit comes after a series of US diplomatic engagements with African leaders, including Trump’s ...

Two independent research teams have used a new method to develop the first detailed maps of the places where DNA is likely to be reshuffled in the genomes of African Americans, creating a tool ...

Rare African maps stored in Northwestern’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies can now be browsed from anywhere in the world. The collection consists of 113 maps published in ...

In an innovative, yet controversial look at African art, award-winning Ghanian-British architect David Adjaye thinks outside the box as he presents 'GeoGraphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa ...

Scientists in the US have created a genetic map for African American populations that reveals the precise locations across the genome where DNA from a person's father and mother have been stitched ...

The new map is so accurate specifically because so many African-Americans have both African and European genes, due to racial mixing during the last couple of hundred years.