While local ownership is growing, Black entrepreneurs remain rare in the billion-dollar safari industry. These trailblazers ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Seen from space, high above Africa ... and tried to raise the alert among people of Botswana but mostly met fatalism.

Alicia Odewale, University of Houston professor, will spearhead a two-year project that chronicles Black heritage and resilience by mapping trees.

Through the National Geographic Society partnership ... and that the stories of Africa are increasingly told by and from the ...