In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

Diversifying food sources and developing underused, nutrient-rich crops could help combat malnutrition and enhance food ...

to the creation of a negative portrayal of Africa. "It's not really our history from our point of view. It might be African history from an European point of view." Dr Wosene Yefru, Tennessee ...

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 ...

Humans originally began to spread out across Africa some 300,000 years ago, but it was long believed that they primarily stuck to savannas. This was because wet forest environments, with their harsh ...