CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...
A collaboration between CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis and Digital Slavery Research Lab aims to regenerate identities using statsitics. Conflicts among African ...
The Zambezi is Africa’s fourth longest river, flowing through six countries: Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, where it becomes the largest river to flow into the Indian ...
We dive deep into a 1935 map of Africa, a relic that captures a pivotal moment in the continent's history. Join us as we explore the map’s significance, uncovering the changes and challenges that have ...
UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze prepares samples for a strontium isotope analysis. Postdoctoral fellow Xueye Wang and UCSC graduate and undergraduate students processed hundreds of ...
‘The face of Africa has long been concealed from the world by myths and prejudice of all kinds,’ wrote Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, the Director-General of UNESCO, in 1979. ‘The General History of Africa ...
A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...
The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...