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 ...

Researchers from Khalifa University, United Arab ... East African component may reflect the region's long and intense involvement in slavery. Yemen was a key player in the Red Sea slave trade ...

The forum unites 19 of the world's largest economies plus the European Union, who meet regularly to coordinate global policies on trade ... Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab ...

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 ...

Discover how initiatives like IMEC and enhanced regional cooperation are shifting the economic centre of gravity towards the ...

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 ...

Sculptures of slaves. Historical Memorial with sculptures and chains near the former African slave trade place in a slave market. Miner or gold digger breaking rock by digging axe . Close up of ...

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 ...