We also wanted to break one of the biggest misconceptions about the continent, which is that Africa is a country," says Bunatal. Courtesy Mariah Boucher Students dispelling misconceptions — ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

Update: A professor who studies race and ethnic conflict responds to this map. Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it's still a construct with significant implications for the world ...

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 ...

The size-comparison map tool that's available on mylifeelsewhere.com offers a geography lesson like no other, enabling users to places maps of countries directly over other landmasses.

The usual suspects lead the list of culturally diverse countries: Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These and other African countries typically rank high on any ...

Alima has started a campaign, “Oxygen for Africa,” to raise money to send about 500 concentrators to six poor countries, Jennifer Lazuta, a spokeswoman, said.

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa.There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in the ...

Hover the mouse over the map to see individual country information, including the capital and size of each country. 3. Click on individual countries to access a compilation of U.S. Africa Command ...

Opinion - What I set out to do in this piece is to map out 10 of the most well-known countries on the continent. I must, however, point out that it was not easy to choose the 10 out of 54 African ...