Following complaints by human-rights lawyer David Enright about the content of an 'unabridged' version of Hergé's Tintin in the Congo in a Borders bookshop's children's section in the UK, Borders ... Read More

The Rosetta Stone, a block of basalt with engraved inscriptions on it's polished surface, was the most significant discovery in the field of Egyptology. It was discovered amongst building rubble ... Read More

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent is part of University of Wisconsin's On-line Digital Collections. Of particular interest to Africanist scholars are the image galleries of 'Building and ... Read More

Thirty years ago the woman now recognised as South Africa's foremost Outsider artist, Helen Martins, committed suicide in a very horrible manner, swallowing a mixture of caustic soda and crushed ... Read More

Although the official approval for Major Bagnold's new Unit, the Long Range Patrol, was only cabled from the War Office on 10 July, formation of the Unit began on 7 ... Read More

The emergence of thousands of ancient written documents in Timbuktu as a direct result of the recent funding and creation of new libraries is causing "a stir among academics and ... Read More

With America celebrating the Fourth of July this Sunday, take a few moments to consider those African countries that also achieved independence from colonial rule in the month of July.