A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique "geologic fingerprints" for most of the African continent. The map ...

Scholars from Rice University, University College London and the Field Museum have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa centuries before the arrival of ...

At an archaeological site in Ethiopia, researchers are uncovering the oldest Christian basilica in sub-Saharan Africa. Ioana Dumitru In the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia, a team of ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi. Mariner Books, 532 pages. While the text does an adequate job of surveying a vast topic, it ...

Between 2010 and 2020, the population of sub-Saharan Africa grew by 31% to 1.1 billion. As of 2020, most people living in the region are Christians (62%), while Muslims make up about a third of the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has enjoyed a sustained period of solid growth that has helped to improve living standards. In many countries, this performance was underpinned by sound economic policies, stronger ...

An international team publishes the findings of a study on the biogeographical history of sub-Saharan Africa. The state of mature ecosystems must be taken into account before launching massive ...