Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

The Royal African Society ( is pleased to announce the co-option of four distinguished leaders to its Council: Ifrah Hassan ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Like people, nonhuman primates live in groups that vary in size and shape depending on the species. Some primate groups are small and simple; others are large and more layered. Over the decades, ...

There are moments when society must pause and ask itself uncomfortable questions, not because they are easy, but because avoiding them has quietly created consequences we can no longer ignore.One of ...

While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Forget the old image of humans marching out from the savannah. A coastal origin story from the southern Cape places women, ...

A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting ...

Pope Leo XIV concluded his first trip to Africa April 23, capping a four-country visit marked by urgent calls for peace, ...

Legal protections are failing to protect girls in Africa from child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), report ...

The 2026 Ulysses and Marguerite Memorial Schwartz Lecture drew an overflowing crowd of students on April 21 to hear from ...