Nelson Mandela was arrested on August 5, 1962. This arrest set in motion a chain of events that made Nelson Mandela a household name around the world. See more »

Africa produces around 60 percent of the world's diamonds, but a few of those are mined illegally, with the profits going to fund terror and violence. How can it be stopped? See more »

People say that the Congo river is murky brown, but for centuries now, historians have written about the Congo's bloody waters. Fantastic tales of death and near misses have corroborated the Congo's reputation as the heart of darkness. See more »

It flows south to north and it helped build Ancient Egypt. How does the mighty Nile affect the people and animals that live nearby? See more »

The 20th century was rife with genocide, from the atrocities waged by Nazi Germany to the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. But what was the century's first genocide, and who waged it? See more »

Fossil evidence indicates that the earliest forms of humans and humanlike creatures originated in Africa. See more »

Barbary, a name given to the northern coastal area of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean. See more »

Boer War, or South African War (1899-1902), a war between Great Britain and the two Boer republics of Africa, the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. See more »

Songhai, Empire, formerly in the western Sudan in Africa. It flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area of the great bend in the Niger River, in present Niger and Mali. See more »

Abd-el-Krim,(1880?-1963), a Moorish chieftain, leader of the Riff tribes in Morocco. See more »