For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Explore the rich culture, history and diversity of West Africa, and learn about the impact and the role that these countries played in the transatlantic slave trade. September 4 – 17, 2025 ...

Hakim is the author of West Africans in Britain 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (Lawrence and Wishart, 1998) and (with M. Sherwood) The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress ...

The West Africa Trade Terrain Geography and Influences West Africa forms one-third of the African continent, with 16 countries and with English and French as its dominant languages.

West Africa TRADE Islam first came to ... Al Bakri, from the Book of Routes and Realms, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic sources for West African History, edited by Levtzion and Hopkins.

“Slavery existed in Africa before the Europeans, and this kingdom was heavily entrenched in the slave trade. It’s terribly exciting.” He plans to conduct intensive excavation of the sites next summer, ...

The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search ...

For nearly 140 years, this tiny scrap of an island on West Africa's Atlantic coast was the point of no return for hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who were stolen from their homes ...

The story of how these mariners repulsed the Spanish Armada of 1588 is seen as a cornerstone of popular British history, yet few know of Hawkins' voyage to West Africa in 1562, in search of human ...