View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Ancient DNA dating to between 16,000–18,000 years ago—the oldest human DNA to be extracted in Africa so far—reveals that populations of ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

Africa has a very long and varied history, and it contains some of the oldest civilisations and countries in the world. The first kingdom for which there is documentary evidence on the continent ...