In a Roundtables event for MIT Technology Review subscribers, the author of Empire of AI explains how everyone has a stake in AI’s development.

During his reign, Mansa Musa was a great patron of the arts and architecture over his great empire and is reputed to have paid a poet 200 kilograms of gold ($8.2 million today).

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...

Davidtz, a familiar presence in films and television for over 30 years with memorable roles in everything from “Schindler’s ...

Legacy of French colonialism The origins of Algeria’s anonymity lie in the recent past. Between 1830 and 1962, it was the most prized possession of the French empire. Independence came in 1962 ...

The Benin Empire had started the industrial revolution long before the West. “The Itsekiri Kingdom thrived with the Portuguese under the leadership of Olu Ginuwa, The First Olu of Warri.” ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

The empire's rich gold deposits, salt mines, and strategic trade routes across West Africa enabled Mansa Musa to amass this enormous wealth, surpassing even modern-day billionaires like Elon Musk ...

It begins with a promise. A satellite dish on a tin roof. A blinking terminal in the middle of rural Kisii. Suddenly, a boy can watch a YouTube video without buffering.

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to ...