Using found Edwardian writing desks, Sonia E. Barrett animates her sculptures with expressive faces redolent of African ...

Contributions presented at the International Colloquium on Slavery, Slave Trade and Their Consequences, held Aug. 23-26, 2010 at Iloko, Osun State, Nigeria. Introduction / Abi Alabo Derefaka -- ...

In truth, the world we know was built on Africa. To tell the story of modernity without Africa is to erase the foundations of global history. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, West African ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

A special committee of the African Union and Caribbean Community, together representing 75 countries, endorsed the demand that European states should pay reparations for “historical mass crimes.” ...

The fifth edition of the ‘Door of Return’ celebration, organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), saw ...

For over four centuries, it served as the route of a colossal and cruel enterprise, the Transatlantic Slave Trade—that ...

The previous essay showed that in the 1400s, Africa was not a “dark continent” but a continent of light — a leader in knowledge, trade, and culture. Cities like Timbuktu rivaled Oxford and Cambridge ...

Although the slave trade itself ended in the 19th century, its aftermath continues to cast a shadow over the societies, economies, cultures, and politics of Africa. One of the major consequences of ...

Philip D. Curtin, 87, a historian of the African slave trade who was instrumental in changing the way schools teach the subject, died June 4 at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa., of ...

The latest edition of The Toyin Falola Interviews aired on Sunday, drawing an impressive lineup of global historians who examined the intersection of women, slavery, and power under the theme, “Global ...