A mosque in Mali. From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient kingdom of Benin is part of Nigeria and Asante is in Ghana.

During its reign, the kingdom of Oyo—which was in present-day southwestern Nigeria, parts of Benin and Togo—captured and enslaved an estimated 128,000 people from West Africa. Using geographic ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

First as part of the province of Africa Nova ... Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

Art historian Gus Casely-Hayford explores the history of the old African kingdom of Ethiopia, which ended when Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the military in 1974. Gus Casely-Hayford ...

In a dream, a mysterious voice calls out in the night to King Alantako, warning of “chaos” ahead for the young Nigerian sovereign. He wakes with a start ...

In a gaming world dominated by US and Asian giants, it is distinguished by its setting: west Africa’s Yoruba ethnic culture.