"It is exciting that people are starting to model these ... The team found that modern humans in Africa may descend from two or more genetically distinct streams that divided but whose individuals ...

Around 50,000 years ago, a new X chromosome appears to have been introduced into modern humans that ... today, most people of less-recent African ancestry have inherited those regions.

“To date, most genetic data suggests that modern humans evolved in ... and then decided to disperse out of Africa 50,000 years ago and go on to people the rest of the world,” said Joshua ...

Devastating floods in South Sudan in recent months left thousands of herders without their most precious possessions: goats, ...

Her Majesty Olori Atuwatse III became the first African Royal woman to receive the Freedom of the City of London. In the grand Guildhall, before British dignitaries and African well-wishers, she ...

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build ... revive the Christian faith in Africa and change people’s views of Africa, by showing ...

As the Catholic Church gets ready to choose a new leader, many are hopeful that the next pope could become the first African Pope in modern times.

This anecdote is just one of the unexpected laugh-out-loud moments in David Zwebner’s The Founding of Modern Ashkelon by South African Jews – a history of the coastal town that was funded and ...