It is a country steeped in history and mystery, especially for someone like me who has always been fascinated by the cultures of the Maghreb. Morocco holds a special kind of magnetism.As I left Ben ...

With U.S. airstrikes against the Houthi rebels intensifying, Yemen is at a critical juncture. Last month, U.S. President ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Since the end of the colonial era, Europe has spent much of its time in Africa on promoting shared values and development – ...

Any attempt at recreating the contours of personal memory against the landscape of a nation’s historical journey is a ...

The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized understanding of nature and humanity's place within it, are among 74 new additions to a ...

The exhibit also highlighted the remarkable role women have played in America’s history. It included a 1931 edition of the ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical ...