10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The ...

Traditionally, written stories have not been part of African culture because history revolves around stories of historical and fictional characters being told orally. During the colonial period, ...

Her interest in African-American history, which began during her undergraduate studies at Trinity College, was sharpened during a 1977 summer program in West Africa. A sojourn out to Goree Island ...

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who re-examined an archaeological site in West Africa from which ... This reflects a complex history of population subdivision ...

The celebration helped kick off Black History Month ... Students of every background experienced a little bit of West African culture through food, music and dancing. “Even if we are only ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first female president on Friday, marking a historic milestone for the ...