For centuries, the history of the West African kingdom of Kaabu, which thrived from the mid-1500s to the 1800s and spanned ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these kingdoms belonged to the Nok people. They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River ...

"The griots have already sung it, but now we know it's real," is what Nino Galissa recounts in a recent song commissioned by archaeologists from their recent dig in Kansala -- a site that was once the ...

By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa ... a journey of nearly 8,000 km from Portugal, down the West African coast, arriving at the mouth of the River Congo.

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 ...