Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

Dongobada seems to exist only on social media – specifically Facebook and X – and as a writer for outlets across ...

The three Sahelian states' split from ECOWAS is reducing security cooperation at a time when West Africa is battling numerous ...

WEST AFRICAN NEWSPAPERS The first African produced paper in West Africa was Charles Bannerman's Accra Herald, produced in 1858 in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana). The following year the first Yoruba ...

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...

Explore the transformative power of West African wellness practices that nourish your body, mind, and soul, inspired by ...

Inspired by daily life in the West African country of Guinea, the show features gravity-defying acrobatics accompanied by a ...

Bantu is the word widely used as a description of a body of people originally based in west or central Africa who, over the course of three thousand years, moved to populate east and southern regions.