Yasuke depicted in a Japanese children's book by Kurusu Yoshio Almost 500 years ago, a tall African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status ...

When I heard rumours of a new contender for the world's tallest man in northern Ghana, I set out to find out if it was true. The only problem? Measuring him. A local hospital in northern Ghana ...

The tallest statue in Africa stands at nearly 200 feet tall and ... It depicts a family reaching skyward, with the man lifting his child on his biceps and clasping his wife at the waist, embodying ...