It’s here that you’ll encounter ‘beach boys,’ young men who belong to Tanzania’s Maasai tribe. During high season, they travel to Zanzibar for work, selling handmade bracelets and trinkets from ‘pole ...

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi is exploring a thousand years of African history through the lens of the continent’s ...

When the U.S. Constitution was signed into law in 1787, it included language that permitted the government to collect taxes on people trafficked to America via the transatlantic slave trade ...

having been driven south 800 years previously by the Arab Muslim conquest of South Sudan – do not seem to have been affected, or greatly affected, by the East African slave trade. Its victims were ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

Zanzibar soon became a base for Arab, Persian and Indian traders. It was at this time that the Swahili ethnic group was formed. They exported valuable ivory, gold and slaves from Africa ... a major ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

this painting would be impossible without the transatlantic slave trade. Cloth from the Netherlands was often exchanged for enslaved people in west Africa, for example. In my book, I draw ...

The Barbary pirates of North Africa attacked the coastal northern Mediterranean launching attacks against Britain, France, ...

A renowned political economist, Professor Carl LeVan has expressed worry over what he described as neglect of Africa in President Donald Trump’s trade policies. LeVan, particularly expressed ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

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