This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 2004, in the Kenyan farming village of Engineer—so named because an Englishman once ran a mechanical ...

I was born in Africa a long, long, very long time ago. People have been telling stories about me for centuries. Considering how old I am, I look pretty good for my age, don't you think? You may ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Africa, a vast continent spanning the Equator and containing more than fifty countries and many different climate zones and landscapes.

The cake represents the continent of Africa. It is being divided up and given to other European countries. The man holding the knife is Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany. Although he ...

Full of culture and some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, an African vacation offers more than meets the eye. The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: In Senegal's capital city Dakar, Muslims belonging to the Layene Sufi order make their way to evening prayers on ...