In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered ... documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

In a Catalan Atlas map from 1375, a drawing of an African king sits on a golden throne atop Timbuktu ... the tradition of education in West Africa, although the story of his empire largely ...

Timbuktu - once spelt Timbuctoo - is the city in northern Mali in Africa that has come to represent a place far away, at the end of the world. It has been symbolically defined as "the most distant ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Timbuktu certainly had an end-of-world feel. End of an era too. A dusty vestige of a once great trading post. The iconic mud-built mosques, amongst the oldest in West Africa, were pockmarked ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

As Tuareg rock group Etran de l’Aïr release their new album, we take a look at their record label, the US-based Sahel Sounds ...

Another of UNESCO’s priorities is World Heritage in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only approximately one-tenth of the sites inscribed, despite having represented one-third of the ...

Students tell us what they have learned from the platonic, familial and romantic relationships in their lives. By The Learning Network How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do ...

The October 2024 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports a fragile economic recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa, with growth projected at 3% in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2023, driven by increased private consumption ...