“Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa” is the first major U.S. exhibition to explore medieval trade and commerce in West Africa.

“Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa,” the first major exhibition to showcase West Africa’s global impact during the medieval period ...

For a long time, Western historians downplayed the influence that West Africa’s precolonial political traditions have had on the region’s modern culture, economics, and politics. ... A New History of ...

In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period The medieval epoch shouldn’t only be envisioned through a European lens. by Seph Rodney March 15, 2019 March 19 ...

The exhibition “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa” opened Jan. 26 at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art with the goal ...

Narrator: From the medieval ages, West Africa was home to a range of powerful kingdoms and empires with their own diverse cultures, identities and people. The 13th century saw the rise of Mansas ...

“Experiments like these allow us to envision life in medieval Saharan Africa with new detail and depth.” Two of the molds used to produce gold coins in Tadmekka and three replica coins made of wax are ...

North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale. By Holland Cotter We like to keep history as we ...

Every form of black cultural expression has its roots in Africa, and many blacks have embraced their ancestry through the wearing of West African fabrics. Most popular among these fabrics are the ...

Find out what precolonial West Africa was like with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.