For centuries, Ghana's coastline has borne the brunt of history. Today, it is being consumed by nature and neglect as climate ...

Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Victory against Nazi Germany were organized in countries across Africa, while several of its state heads travelled to Moscow to attend ...

But on May 15, 2025, the largest surviving plantation mansion of them all burned to the ground, reportedly due to an ...

New research reveals 19th-century Dahomey swords were locally forged using a unique method blending multiple irons, ...

The subscribers having leased for a term of years the large three story brick house on Duke Street, in the town of Alexandria, D.C. formerly occupied by Gen. Young, we wish to purchase one hundred ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...

It gives the right of search to all British cruisers, and thus abolishes, we hope for ever, the only protection under which the Slave-trade ... put down the trade on the coast of Africa, we ...

Burkina Faso's new president came to power in a dramatic coup, winning hearts across Africa with fiery rhetoric and viral social media appeal.

Parakou, Benin’s third-largest city, pulses with life in the northern Borgou Department. With over 200,000 residents, it’s a crossroads for trade, connecting farmers from the cotton-rich plains—which ...

As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian cultures. It was also, from 1558, the first slave market in the New ...

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