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 ...

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 ...

Traditionally, written stories have not been part of African culture because history revolves around stories of historical and fictional characters being told orally. During the colonial period, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

The celebration helped kick off Black History Month ... Students of every background experienced a little bit of West African culture through food, music and dancing. “Even if we are only ...