CIA World FactBook

Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma...

South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, is the world’s newest country. Home...

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record were found in South Africa....

Between A.D. 800 and 1100, immigrant Muslim Arabs and Persians set up coastal trading posts...

Continuously populated for at least 2,500 years, the area now known as Sierra Leone is...

Seychelles was uninhabited before Europeans discovered the islands early in the 16th century. After a...

Senegal is one of the few countries in the world with evidence of continuous human...

Portugal discovered and colonized the uninhabited Sao Tome and Principe islands in the late 15th...

Saint Helena is a British Overseas Territory off the coast of Africa in the South...

Rwanda -- a small and centralized country dominated by rugged hills and fertile volcanic soil...

In ancient and pre-colonial times, the area of present-day Nigeria was occupied by a variety...