His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of ...

Meanwhile in Europe, Greece (c. 800–146 BCE) developed democracy, philosophy, and literature, shaping Western intellectual traditions, but Greek states were politically fragmented and prone to ...

The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...

Reviewed by Thomas Fuller in Journal of African studies (Los Angeles) 2 (1) spring 1975, pages 118-129 (DT1.J8585 AFA) ANAC copy 39088008591919 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, From ...

The Great Zimbabwe National Monument stands as one of southern Africa’s most iconic archaeological sites, a silent witness to a thriving African civilization that flourished between the 11th and 15th ...

The human origins question has been settled, but we know precious little about the emergence of civilization in Africa. Most Holocene archaeologists define civilization, in part, in terms of settling ...