Recent weeks have put South Africa’s migration system under more public scrutiny than at any point in years, with ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

Amid a surge in anti-migrant sentiment, we test three common narratives driving South Africa’s migration debate against the ...

The central challenge is not migration itself; human mobility has always been part of Africa’s social and economic history.

South Africa's anti-migrant protests have reignited the debate over national interests, xenophobia and the future of African ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea-level ...

Nigeria moved to deepen economic and migration ties with Europe, even as experts at a major conference in Porto warned that ...

Members of the ECOWAS Parliament and other officials at the outreach programme on Irregular Migration in Banjul, The Gambia. Photo: ECOWAS ParliamentThe bugbear of irregular migration, the menace of ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful ...

Kayleigh explains what the Out of Africa theory really means and why it is not a single migration event. Early Homo species ...