An ancient crossroads for various migrations, Uganda has as many as 65 ethnic groups that speak languages from three of...

Many empires have controlled Tunisia, including the Phoenicians (as early as the 12 century B.C.), Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, various...

From the 11th to the 16th centuries, various ethnic groups settled the Togo region. From the 16th to the 18th...

Tanzania contains some of Africa’s most iconic national parks and famous paleoanthropological sites, and its diverse cultural heritage reflects the...

Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) until it...

South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, is the world’s newest country. Home to a diverse array of...

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record were found in South Africa. By about A.D. 500, Bantu-speaking...

Between A.D. 800 and 1100, immigrant Muslim Arabs and Persians set up coastal trading posts along the Gulf of Aden...

Continuously populated for at least 2,500 years, the area now known as Sierra Leone is covered with dense jungle that...

Seychelles was uninhabited before Europeans discovered the islands early in the 16th century. After a lengthy struggle, France eventually ceded...

Senegal is one of the few countries in the world with evidence of continuous human life from the Paleolithic period...