Eusebius McKaiser is the host a daily radio talk show in Johannesburg and the author of “A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics.” Updated July 30 ...

Urbanisation and cities. Exploring rural to urban migration in Africa and the rapid urbanisation of African cities including Johannesburg. BBC.

What is “Africa?” Nomenclature raises difficult issues. Maps in school rooms show “Africa“ as a distinct continent, the second largest in the world. But the U.S. Department of State assigns North ...

Newswise — Geography and ecology are key factors that have influenced the genetic makeup of human groups in southern Africa, according to new research discussed in the journal GENETICS, a publication ...

Africa’s rapid demographic expansion will increasingly occur in an urban setting. The scale of the population growth and limited existing infrastructure will necessitate the development of novel ...

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

The ebola outbreak and its importation to the United States has unleashed a wave of panic in the United States, revealing the paucity of Americans’ knowledge and understanding of Africa. I speak with ...

Travelers fearful of Ebola are avoiding Africa or canceling long-planned safaris, creating dire consequences for the economy in Africa, tourism and government officials said. More than 13,000 people ...

THE POVERTY of sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most obdurate features of the world economy. Since the industrial revolution, this has been the world’s poorest and also its most slowly growing region.

African masks and figurines need to be liberated from the “scaffolding” of site-based interpretations, whether in Africa or the West, and listened to with humility and vulnerability, said Zina ...

Geography and ecology are key factors that have influenced the genetic makeup of human groups in southern Africa, according to new research. By investigating the ancestries of twenty-two KhoeSan ...