How quickly can you identify 20 countries in Africa ? How about 50? I did reasonably well on the 50 te...  ...is online quiz on the locations of the nations of Africa

The Germans moved into the area of what is now Nam...  ...into the area of what is now Namibia in southwest Africa in 1882, eventually occupying and displacing the...

No Photoshop here. Redditor itwvet instead molded...  ...itor itwvet instead molded clay letters to spell " Africa ." After placing a light behind them in the hut, h...

(YouTube Link)Late night talk show hos...  ...encounter with a baby elephant while on a trip to Africa

(YouTube Link)Don't let the long necks and docile faces fool you- giraffes are fierce combatants when it comes to battling for food and territory.The giraffe's weapon of choice when fighting? Their long necks,...

Peggielene Bartels has lived in the US for thirty years, and works as a secretary at the Ghanaian embassy in Washington, DC. But she is also the King of Otuam, a village in Ghana.Nearly five years ago, Bartels was startl...

The One Laptop Per Child project started several years ago with the idea that inexpensive, solar-powered computers could help bring children in Third World countries into the information age. So far it's worked really we...

In Kenya lies Lake Turkana, the world's largest alkaline lake. This is the Nabuyatom Crater, a geological marvel of that lake. It's a caldera--the remnants of a collapsed volcano.Link -via TYWKIWDBI | Photo: Christian St...

You've heard it said that war is nature's way...  ...ddle East. We first posted this map quiz on North African -Middle Eastern countries from Rethinking Schools...

Spencer West has no legs, so he walked on his...  ...d Uhuru Peak in Tanzania, the highest altitude in Africa . From his blog: The moment the summit was within...  ...the entire world, sitting together at the top of Africa , the continent that had taught us so much about c...