By Kofi ASMAHWhen Oliver Gidiglo, a 39-year-old accountant, bought his plot at Kasoa five years ago, he thought he was securing his family’s future. The documents looked genuine, the seller was ...

On October 12, 2025, the Somali nation commemorates the 71st anniversary of its national flag, a powerful symbol of sovereignty that emerged from a protracted struggle against colonial rule and ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Thursday, June 19, a federal holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were ...

What is the Juneteenth flag? First created in 1997 by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder Ben Haith, the banner is in red, white and blue of the U.S. flag to convey that all enslaved ...

Can I name all 54 Flags of Africa? Episode 6 of my "Can I name all 197 Flags of the World?" series! We have now learned all the flags of Europe, Asia, & America so let's learn North America and South ...

While many African flags are visually striking, one that stands out as particularly symbolic and captivating is the flag of South Africa. The Actors Who Always Play Lovers (and Why We Keep Watching) ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS — The City of St. Louis joined ...