These West African kingdoms and empires developed their own diverse and rich cultures, art, histories and religions. Narrator: From the medieval ages, West Africa was home to a range of powerful ...

Africa is no longer a peripheral arena—it’s becoming a central platform for Moscow’s global strategy. The West should beware.

Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence ...

The Mughal Empire, with its grand palaces, opulent courts, and immense wealth, is often regarded as one of the richest ...

Conrad's "Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay." But it was his Islamic faith that prompted him to make his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, thus exposing his extraordinary riches ...

The central aim of Gomez is to provide an in-depth explication of the formation and eventual demise of the now relatively well-known but poorly described Niger River valley empires of Mali and Songhay ...

Challenge the power of military elites, who were long allied with the West ... imposed leadership. If Africa and the Middle East are to escape the shadows of empire, they must reclaim control ...

But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman Empire of Morocco ... the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles ...

For several centuries, West Africa has experienced mental, social, political and spiritual upheavals that have shaped its ...