For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new campaign is ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in the major language families in the world. The map, from Exploring Africa, has colour ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.