North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale.

How did the civilizations of North Africa connect with the rest of the continent in ancient and medieval times? This video explores the trans-Saharan trade routes, cultural exchanges, and powerful ...

A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu that academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition are going on public show on the continent for the first time.

It has to be primarily historians of world history with a specialist interest in West African history, not only because it is descriptively dense in its heavy orientation toward dynastic politics ...

Humble fragments of clay crucibles and coin molds flecked with gold excavated by a joint team of British and Malian archaeologists in 2005 led archaeologist Sam Nixon, in consultation with Thilo ...

How Diverse Was Medieval Britain? People took long voyages to start a new life in Britain in early medieval times.

The U.N.’s refugee agency says destruction from flooding has displaced more than 3.4 million people in west and central Africa.

South-West Africa in Early Times. Being the Story of South-West Africa upto the Date of Maharero's Death in 1890 Dr. Heinrich Vedder.

“Born in Blackness,” by the former New York Times correspondent Howard W. French, is a deeply researched account of the continent’s often overlooked role in the development of the modern world.

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago.

The West African country of Niger has been thrown into turmoil following a coup that removed the nation's democratically elected leader. In a strange twist of fate, Niger's leader was ousted by ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond.