Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, gave a keynote at the United Nations’ annual ceremony in observance of the ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its ...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, ...

Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ... by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated African life. Culture and traditions were torn asunder ...

Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ... by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated African life. Culture and traditions were torn asunder ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could ... displaced by the transatlantic slave trade. “Where were my ancestors?” ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

Nobel Prize-winning writer, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has strongly criticised the persistence of modern slavery across Africa and ...

This photo taken on March 18, 2025, shows the remains of a palm oil factory where slaves were subjected to forced labor, at ...

Initially, European trade with Africa did not specialise in enslaved ... and important to their success as global powers. Slavery existed in African societies prior to European traders.