What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Cape Town and Johannesburg are rapidly positioning themselves as Africa’s Silicon Valley. According to New World Wealth, a Sandton-based wealth intelligence firm, and Shaun Richards, founder and CEO ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / SAPBy Alexandra van der PloegThe 2025 World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, held under the theme "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," brough ...

The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

As Africa's diplomatic powerhouse, South Africa continues to shape continental and global policy through its strategic ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

The United Arab Emirates has overtaken China to become Zimbabwe's biggest export partner. Since 2022, the Gulf state has ...

Some countries will make vehicles, others participate in the beneficiation of minerals, while East Africa is a leader in ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...