To call oneself African in Morocco, or more broadly in North Africa, remains an act laden with hesitation. It is not ...

Eusebius McKaiser is the host a daily radio talk show in Johannesburg and the author of “A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics.” Updated July 30 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I share the view that the Mediterranean littoral belongs to Africa only in the ...

Few countries rival South Africa’s diversity. From vast deserts and rugged mountain ranges to fertile coasts and tropical ...

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

Last week Johnathan Bascom traveled 7,500 miles southeast and arrived back in East Africa. “Fewer and fewer geographers focus on sub-Saharan Africa,” said Bascom, a longtime geography professor at ...

Travelers fearful of Ebola are avoiding Africa or canceling long-planned safaris, creating dire consequences for the economy in Africa, tourism and government officials said. More than 13,000 people ...

Today we commemorate Columbus Day, an American holiday observed in some states, perhaps for Christopher Columbus’s perseverance and bravery rather than his geographical knowledge. In light of recent ...