Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... 10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing ...

West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as the "Land of Gold" because of its abundant reserves and ...

West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as the "Land of Gold" because of its abundant reserves and ...

Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering topics ranging ...