New volcanic dating from Ethiopia’s Omo Kibish formation has pushed the age of Homo sapiens fossils back to at least 233,000 ...

In our review, we accepted that modern humans arose in Africa during the Middle Stone Age about 200,000 years ago and then replaced populations of hominins outside the continent between 60,000 and 40, ...

The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced Shaka ...

Recent elections in several African countries have ended with sidelined opposition candidates and disputed results.