While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images On the same day in Senegal, staff at Dakar's Massalikoul Djinane Mosque, the biggest mosque in West Africa, prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Cem Ozdel ...

Technology now has arrived in isolated regions of Africa primarily in the form of relatively inexpensive cell phones. In 2010 the 18-year-old computer wizard traveled to Kigali, Rwanda.