Voodoo is often shrouded in mystery, or demonised. But at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, tourists are finding out about ...

An elephant will never beget a rat. The Alaafin of Oyo’s ancestry is traced to Oduduwa, the famed progenitor of the Yoruba ...

As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the ...

Brown knew that Jefferson was a plantation and slave owner whose descendants ... when they trained together in Togo before he began working in Benin in 1991. She still works as a foreign service ...

Prof Farooq Adamu Kperogi’s two articles intended to vilify the dogged Awoist Amazon and Leader of British Conservative Party ...

These days, the imperial era is tarnished by its long association with slavery. It was the last country in the Americas ... Lebanon, Cameroon and Togo. While the First French Colonial Empire saw ...

Eight men are accused of sexual offences against the two teenagers. The widespread abuse of girls in a number of English towns and cities, including Rochdale, Rotherham, and Oldham, which emerged ...

Indictment Accuses White Couple of Forcing Adopted Black Children to Work as 'Slaves,' Says Judge The couple's trial began on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in Kanawha County Circuit Court, before Whitefeather ...

At least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by European ships and sold into slavery from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Britain enslaved over 3 million, and the City of ...

Hounsou has plans to expand the event to Liverpool and Ouidah, Benin, over the next few years as a symbolic representation of the triangular route of the Transatlantic slave trade. “We’re ...

Mahmoud Gad received funding from the Financial Reporting Council for the report cited in this article examining the properties of UK Modern Slavery Statements. Steven Young received funding from ...