Full of culture and some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, an African vacation offers more than meets the eye. The African continent is the world’s ... Does hearing the name Egypt conjure images ...

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images And at The Gambia's Bijilo Forest Park on Wednesday, a curious red colobus monkey peers at the camera. Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...

These masterfully-rendered images depict ... the height of the African Humid Period — relative to the conditions today shows that the extent of the AHP across the continent was vast ...