Of all the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun is the most famous. This is due to the unprecedented wealth of artefacts found in his tomb, which was "discovered" by British ... Read More

Frananglais is a mixture of French, English, and Creole, and it's increasingly becoming a language of communication in Cameroon, according to a news report on the BBC. The country's official ... Read More

Even if you’re familiar with the story of how the journalist Henry Morton Stanley was sent to find the ‘lost’ British explorer David Livingstone in the unmapped interior of Africa, ... Read More

If you want to understand modern South Africa there is no better place to start than the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Antjie Krog's masterwork places you in the mind of ... Read More

The history of Soweto, its development, and the trials and tribulations of its people are a microcosm of the history of South Africa. This book is the first to comprehensively ... Read More

The Rwanda government is wanting to reduce the country's birthrate by half, limiting families to three children. According to a news report in the International Herald Tribune the country's ... Read More

Information on how many slaves were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas during the sixteenth century can only be estimated as very few records exist for this ... Read More

The gallery of Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade includes pictures of indigenous and European slave trade, capture, transportation to the coast, slave pens, inspection by European merchants ... Read More

It's not surprising there were four major Roman roads leading from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea; what is surprising is that, centuries later, parts of these unpaved roads ... Read More

What kind of mathematical knowledge did the Ancient Egyptians develop in order build the pyramids? In an article in