In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent ...

The almost intractable deadlock was resolved on April 29, 2011 when the FGN, Shell and Eni signed the Resolution Agreement ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to ...

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a Royal Navy squadron was stationed off the West African coast to intercept and capture slaving vessels of other nations. The West ...

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