Culture & People

Kylian Mbappé was cancelled in China after a video circulated showing him calling Mao Zedong "a Chinese dictator" while laughing about a meme of his own face photoshopped onto Mao's image. That one comment cost him every major Chinese sponsorship deal, got La Liga wiped from state TV, and drew a response from the Chinese foreign ministry. A video emerged online with Mbappé saying the funniest internet meme he had seen was of his face digitally altered onto that of "some guy — I think he's a Chinese dictator." He added that he would "use it a lot with my friends online." The meme in question had Mbappé'

Françafrique is France's sphere of influence over former French and Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa that preserved French economic, monetary, and military power through preferential trade agreements, the CFA franc system, and military presence.

Yes. Fossils and DNA both point to Africa as the birthplace of humanity. Our own species, Homo sapiens, appeared there about 300,000 years ago, and the human family began there about 7 million years ago. Everyone alive today traces their deepest roots to Africa.

The Nile flows north, from its headwaters in central and east Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. This surprises people because we tend to think of "up" on a map as the direction water flows, when in fact water follows gravity, and the terrain of northeastern Africa slopes downward toward the north. The Nile's two main tributaries, the White Nile (sourced near Lake Victoria in Uganda and Tanzania) and the Blue Nile (sourced at Lake Tana in Ethiopia), both travel northward before meeting near Khartoum, Sudan. From

The question has the direction reversed, and the honest answer is that East Asians have features that resemble the Khoisan, not the other way around, because the Khoisan are among the oldest human populations on earth and carried those features first.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Pnyx in Athens, with the Acropolis as its backdrop, declaring the West at "an inflection point" and calling on Europe to "awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago."