Groups of hunter-gatherers in what is today Senegal continued to use Middle Stone Age technologies associated with our species’ earliest prehistory as late as 11 thousand years ago.
West Africa “a real frontier for human evolutionary studies”
16thC Shipwreck Reveals New Information on African Elephants
In 1533, a Portuguese trading vessel carrying forty tons of gold and silver coins along with other precious cargo went missing on its way to India.
Did early humans learn to cook in Olduvai Gorge?
“How did what seems to be a ‘golden spike’ in human culture first take material form in Olduvai?”
The Harray men who went for gold
“In the late summer of 1835, 19-year old Joseph Clouston, who had been born in Stromness but was then living at Nisthouse in Harray, arrived at the coastal town of Anamaboe.”
Building Research Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
The project will focus on Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan, all of which are among the least developed countries in the world.
We need to worry about Africa…..
“I hope that in the understandable and necessary preoccupation with what is immediately affecting us we do not forget others. “
The Cost of a Mobile Phone
Cobalt is quite a rare metal which is found in the Earth’s crust.
Dr David Livingstone #OTD
On 10th of November 1871 American journalist Henry Morton Stanley met the Scottish explorer, missionary and campaigner against slavery Dr David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa
