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 ...

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

Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record ...

Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African kingdoms and empires developed their own diverse and rich cultures, art, histories and ...

By the 12th century, it had become a dominant force in West Africa. Today, remnants of this empire can be seen in Borno and Adamawa states. Several other notable kingdoms and empires contributed to ...

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 ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

Armed with iron smelting technology the Bantu of west and central Africa dispersed across the continent, changing its linguistic and cultural landscape. A number of theories have been put forward ...