Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

Archeologists and scholars are learning more about Africa than ever before, from the digitization of records and the unearthing of ancient treasures. Audie Cornish talks with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

In this book, Robert Harms presents African history as an ongoing dialogue between global forces and uniquely African developments. Africans did not merely bend before global forces, he contends; they ...

Africa bears the cost of crises it did not ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr., who sets out to change what known about those civilizations with his African history series that airs Monday night on PBS. Henry Louis ...

Author and African history professor Peter Alegi talks to Melissa Block about soccer's long history in South Africa. Soccer was brought to Africa by British colonials in the mid-1800s. The first ...

Analysis - The Zambezi is Africa's fourth longest river, flowing through six countries: Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, where it becomes the largest river to flow into the ...