Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence ...

Initially emphasis was placed on the ancient African empires and kingdoms and on the battles for independence. But since then, African historians have become more questioning about events in their ...

The Kanem-Borno Empire was one of the most powerful and enduring kingdoms in African history, thriving for over a thousand years. This video explores its… The Kanem-Borno Empire was one of the ...