The Maghreb, where the Sahara meets the Mediterranean, has always been more than a borderland. With its strategic location ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Now a pioneering paleoanthropologist at ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to ...

Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

Stone tools dating back 150,000 years have been found in the jungle, revealing early human occupation in dense tropical ...

By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American philosopher, cultural historian and novelist who questioned the West’s intellectual tools for appraising Africa, identifying them as ...

a strumming guitar plays over animated images as a woman’s voice warns us of powerful storyteller musicians from cultures as different as Old Ireland to the Choctaw to ancient West Africa.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has officially opened its new Regional Office in Accra, marking a major step in strengthening higher education cooperation between Germany and West Africa.

The Economic Community of West African states (Ecowas) is set to mark 50 years in May 2025. It was established in 1975 by 16 member states. Though seven of the founding leaders had ascended to ...

There, more and more evidence has been found of sophisticated behaviors and advanced cognition in ancient ... stone tools in an area of present-day rainforest. This site is one of the few in ...