How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer

Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man walked thousands of miles from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known ...
CNN

For decades there were rumors of ghost elephants in Angola. This explorer found them

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African storytellers shine at first National Geographic Explorers Festival

South African film-maker and National Geographic Explorer Noel Kok, co-founder of the Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) network, hosted the first-ever National Geographic ...
Reuters

Scotland, Africa fete explorer Livingstone on 200th

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's National Museum raised the curtain this week on celebrations marking the bicentenary of the birth of the country's most renowned African explorer, David Livingstone, ...