The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one attuned to cosmic (and comic) injustice.

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

A total lunar eclipse will make the moon appear red during the across the Western Hemisphere during the "Blood Worm Moon" ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

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Africa may not be one of the places that people associate wine with but there is a tiny town on the world’s second largest continent that is slowly changing that. Some people who have visited ...

Jose Mourinho has dismissed claims he made racist comments - saying his accusers "didn't know my connections with Africa". Mourinho, the manager of Turkish club Fenerbahce, had told a news ...

Trade Fight Widens as Europe and Canada Retaliate Against Trump Tariffs As President Trump’s global tariffs on metals took effect, the European Union and Canada announced billions of dollars in ...

Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 4,200-year-old settlement that predates the Phoenicians — a ...