The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

In The New York Review of Books, Howard W. French reviews a handful of books on medieval and early modern Africa: “There is a broad strain in Western thought that has long treated Africa as ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

These medieval individuals had DNA fragments shared ... the Swahili coast, South Africa, the Canary Islands, Lebanon, Machu ...

and is the author of several works in African history, politics, and society. Note: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa is also available in paper back and ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...