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 ...

The map below shows 50 of the most commonly spoken, ranging from Bantu to Songha, according to Marc Felix and Charles Meurs' 2001 book Peoples' Atlas of Africa: African countries are also quite ...

A map of West Africa from 1747 refers to the region as "Negroland". The most recent map in the collection from 1915 shows the town plan for Dakar, Senegal's capital. The collection, which can be ...

Atlas Pro. This 1935 Map of Africa Explains So Much. Posted: November 27, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. We dive deep into a 1935 map of Africa, a relic that captures a pivotal moment in the ...

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. “Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya.

All humans are descendants from this common pool of ancestors. Africa and its multitude of ethnolinguistic groups are therefore fundamental to learning more about humankind and our origins.

The African Genome Variation Project presents 1 genomic information from 18 ethnolinguistic groups across sub-Saharan Africa, representing populations from the west, east and south of the ...