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).

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two percent of official African boundaries were influenced by historical political ...

Steve Boyes, founder and project leader of The Wilderness Project, is gathering scientific information across the length of the Congo River. It is part of the Great Spine of Africa research ...

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.