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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient fortified towns, Roman ruins, and Sahara sands make Africa’s largest country an undiscovered tourism giant hiding in plain sight.

The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III has unveiled a book, " The 1492 Itsekiri Odyssey" with a call on contemporary Itsekiri writers to do more novels, poetry and historical work on the Itsekiri ...

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 ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming history's richest person. His pilgrimage to Mecca, though extravagant ...

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 ...