Eusebius McKaiser is the host a daily radio talk show in Johannesburg and the author of “A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics.” Updated July 30 ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I share the view that the Mediterranean littoral belongs to Africa only in the ...
PHOTO: Cape Town, pictured here, is more than 2,000 miles from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But if you buy into the little world news the mass media feeds us, you'd think that both regions ...
W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...
The map above has been making the Internet rounds this week for obvious reasons. One could quibble with the details. Congo recently had a now-contained outbreak of a different strain of Ebola. A ...
Travelers fearful of Ebola are avoiding Africa or canceling long-planned safaris, creating dire consequences for the economy in Africa, tourism and government officials said. More than 13,000 people ...
Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic ...