THE salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana’s Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved ...

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

A judge awarded a woman $29.6 million in damages Tuesday morning in a lawsuit filed against her adoptive parents who ...

Nigeria says it is owed more than $11 million by Benin and Togo for electricity supplied in the first quarter of 2025. This is according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission ...

Northern Ghana was historically a center for the trade of human lives: captives from northern communities like Nok, now part of Togo, were taken to slave markets.

It’s important to tackle the topic in an age-appropriate way, experts say—and to make sure children understand how the legacy of slavery informs life today.