West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these kingdoms belonged to the Nok people. They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River ...

See the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, experience the power of religion, the injustices of slavery, and chart the expansion of trade between Africa and other continents. Hear what it was ...

Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the ... speaks to how thoroughly integrated the North African provinces were with the Roman empire. None of this is to say that Roman North Africa ...

Art historian Gus Casely-Hayford explores the history of the old African kingdom of Ethiopia ... African genius which gives an insight into the empires which once dominated southern Africa.

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi is exploring a thousand years of African history through the lens of the continent’s ...