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 victims.

Ahead of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on March 24, the United Nations (UN) unveiled a new exhibition examining the themes of ...

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

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

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

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

Prof. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Afreximbank, praised the government and people of Barbados for ...

The transatlantic slave trade was abolished in US nearly 200 years ago yet the impacts of its socio-economic and ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denounced the persistence of modern-day slavery in Africa and beyond. He made these ...

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

The island was even involved in the American Revolutionary War, because the French were jealous of its commercial success.