Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. The north of Africa ...

Incorporating it in discussions of sub-Saharan Africa can be misleading. Its history, language, culture, and politics tie it closely to the Middle East and, to a lesser extent, Europe.

A SUMMARY of our present knowledge of Northern Africa, and a memoir of the late Sir Samuel Baker, may be appropriately considered together, for Baker's main title to fame rests on the work he did ...

Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the ...