These West African kingdoms and empires developed their own diverse and rich cultures, art, histories and religions. Narrator: From the medieval ages, West Africa was home to a range of powerful ...

Brothers Faan and Dirk van der Walt went from repairing old cars to starting WeBuyCars, which made them two of South Africa’s ...

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

Africa stands to gain invaluable insights from both the achievements and the eventual downfall of the Babylonian Empire, ...

The Battle of Isandlwana took place on 22 January 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. About 20,000 Zulu warriors, commanded by King Cetshwayo, defeated ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was ... the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore ...

Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work - a compelling audio drama about an increasingly tyrannical queen and her scheming twin ...

In an article dated December 18, 2024, Llyod Evans writes, “Kemi Badenoch is bad at PMQs [Prime Minister’s Question Time) ...

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

However, Belisarius’ name lives on chiefly because of his military ventures after these early events, which saw him lead Roman armies to victory over the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa in the ...