For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone ...

he united several of West Africa’s kingdoms to defeat Ghana’s king, Sumanguru. He then began to conquer more land in the area, calling his new kingdom the Mali Empire. Records of oral history ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...

Volume VII African under Colonial Domination 1880-1935. Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain. By Ham Mukasa. Prometheus Books, June 1976. The History of West Africa. By J.F.A. Ajayi. Edited by ...

With performance, participation and people, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, and their mindset and value system ...

The UNOWAS mandate and its reporting are critical given the immense challenges faced by the people of West Africa and the Sahel,” said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented ...