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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Reynolds, the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, announced today the appointment of Ben Coleman as the United Kingdom’s Trade Envoy to Morocco and West Africa. This announcement ...