Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

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.

In Africa, some regions are suffering from political instability and economic chaos, and U.S. travel advisories warn that visitors to some areas may risk being caught up in violent conflicts ...

As more micro-regions are established and respected, they will be a stepping stone toward regional integration in southern Africa. People living in Africa’s borderlands have long used colonial ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.