By Robert D. Kaplan and Mark Schroeder There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions.

Here are the five longest rivers in Africa. Nile River. The Nile River is the world’s and Africa’s longest river, spanning 4,130 miles (6,650 km).

According to a new analysis, Africa's country borders were not arbitrarily drawn by colonial powers, but owe more to major rivers and precolonial states. African national borders, and conflicts that ...

We have spent a lot of time considering these questions and others related particularly to maps since a map of southern Africa's rivers that one of us, Sukhmani, created and posted on Facebook.

We have spent a lot of time considering these questions and others related particularly to maps since a map of southern Africa’s rivers that one of us, Sukhmani, created and posted on Facebook.