For centuries, the history of the West African kingdom of Kaabu, which thrived from the mid-1500s to the 1800s and spanned ...

Al Bakri, from the Book of Routes and Realms, Corpus of Early Arabic sources for West African History, Levtzion and Hopkins. Another trade route forged by Muslim traders went from Zawila (in what ...

In the years that followed, photos of Sendeoli would become part of a pro-Russian propaganda campaign – one that used his ...

he united several of West Africa’s kingdoms to defeat Ghana’s king, Sumanguru. He then began to conquer more land in the area, calling his new kingdom the Mali Empire. Records of oral history ...

BSc in Politics and History and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who re-examined an archaeological site in West Africa from which ... This reflects a complex history of population subdivision ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

In this adapted excerpt, we meet Balla Kouyaté, one in a long line of West African "djelis," men who function as living history books to preserve stories, culture, and traditions. Some ...