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 ...

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 ...

A Regional Geography. By K. M. Barbour. Pp. 292 + 42 plates. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1961.) 42s. net. Africa A Social Geography. By Anthony Sillery ...

THE publication of this little text-book in Macmillan's Geographical Series will be welcomed by all who are interested in geographical education, or who desire a handly and trustworthy compendium on ...

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 ...

Geography and ecology are key factors that have influenced the genetic makeup of human groups in southern Africa, according to new research. By investigating the ancestries of twenty-two KhoeSan ...

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 ...

It's a tale of culture, geography, economics, colonial legacies, scientific advances, and now the idea that we have to prevent cases and treat patients one at a time A child takes part in a World AIDS ...

Africa’s rapid demographic expansion will increasingly occur in an urban setting. The scale of the population growth and limited existing infrastructure will necessitate the development of novel ...