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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In his meeting with Wang, Sassou Nguesso said that he expects China's emphasis on Africa will lead to greater attention on and support for the continent from the world. He mentioned the pressing need ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Forza Horizon 6 has no shortage of potential locations to choose as its setting. Here a bunch that should be considered.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.