The Mali Empire offers one of the clearest examples of advanced African governance. Emerging in the thirteenth century, Mali developed a political system that integrated military authority, commercial ...

Here is a list of Black History Month events happening in the Capital Region this year!

Gold prices surged past $5,000 an ounce for the first time on Monday, extending a historic rally fuelled by geopolitical ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: ...

A casual swim off Sardinia turned into something remarkable. Near Arzachena, a diver spotted metal on the seabed. Curiosity sparked. Authorities were .

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods after more than 600 British imperial artefacts were stolen from ...

In Aflao, on the Ghana–Togo border, we joined a community football match as part of our Borderless Africa community activities, Ghanaians on one side, Togolese on the other We met several interesting ...

Colonialism did not merely exploit African women; it transformed them into permanent infrastructure for empire. African women ...