Colonial officials who had served in Egypt, felt quite at home in the Muslim area of West Africa. In northern Nigeria, the British undertook not to interfere with the Muslim order and exercised ...

For more than 10 years, researchers, civil society and community members and government officials in Ghana worked to create ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as ...

For those African governments with leverage – market access and natural resources – a splintering of the West may sound ...

ECOWAS and AfDB have signed an $11.18 million agreement to boost rice production and enhance food security in West Africa.

A political mission sent to Guinea-Bissau by West Africa’s regional bloc to resolve an electoral dispute has left the country ...