Early people not only came out of Africa, but much later, some returned to it by boat across the Mediterranean, possibly from ...

Europe and beyond. In this view, early humans bypassed West and Central Africa, especially tropical forests. These areas, the ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

At the beginning of the century, Europeans were still hugely ignorant of the continent. The systematic colonisation of Africa, which gathered momentum in the 1880's, was not even on the horizon in ...

The cake represents the continent of Africa. It is being divided up and given to other European countries. The man holding the knife is Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany. Although he ...