While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two scientists from South ...

Livelihood diversity wasn't just a feature of ancient African societies; it was key to survival. New research covering millennia of African history reveals that livelihood diversification enabled ...

Ogundairo believes the commonly used Mercator map affects Africa and Africans negatively ... but its huge errors soon became hard to ignore. “It preserves shapes and angles, and that’s good for ...

“It preserves shapes and angles, and that’s good for navigation, but it’s terrible for scale,” geography professor Lindsay Frederick Braun of the University of Oregon said of the Mercator map.

In South Africa, food is never just food - it’s a reflection of history, race, and resilience. In this video, we explore how cuisine differs across Black, White, and Colored communities, each ...

There are more than 200 products with geographical indication across Africa, but more can be done to protect the continent’s rich cultural heritage, writes Isabella Becaro Pinho of Inventa. From north ...

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“Looking at a map is like looking into a fire in a fireplace; there’s a sense of something happening all the time, and it draws you in,” said Anders Mattsson, a cabinetmaker for Svenskt Tenn.

Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies in Africa. Most of those lines drawn on a Berlin Conference table between 1884 and 1885 are still in place today - with deadly ...

Palestine to Africa: How maps lie — and some tell the truth. Conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, the Indian Ocean and other areas also spill over into the realm of cartography.