Here in Benin's coastal town of Ouidah ... Even less is known about the intra-African slave trade or the involvement of African kingdoms like Dahomey – a situation that the 2022 Netflix ...

Plymouth woman’s fight to get her 92-year-old mother Medicaid highlights the growing problem of short-staffed counties When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her ...

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter ... Some of the descendants of African traders are alive today.

The UN has reported that at least 200,000 children are trafficked annually in the west and central African slave trade. Although ... were being trafficked from Benin to Gabon.

believed to contain as many as 250 children intended for slave labor, that is expected to arrive in Benin on Sunday. The ship has been seeking a port on Africa's west coast for more than a week.

The Romans and Greeks had enslaved many peoples from different regions, whereas the transatlantic slave trade involved the mass transportation of African peoples, to support economic growth in ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off Senegal's coast, stands as a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave trade while balancing its role as a living community. The island's main site, ...