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

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

Recalling and commemorating the non-Western history of inoculation, particularly its African history in West Africa and the Americas, is necessary to help heal the gaping wounds that have ...

In 1967, he co-authored the “History of West Africa” to consider themes such as the encroachment of European industrial capitalism on the Western Sudan, and contributed to a 1971 work for ...

As John O. Hunwick gingerly leafs through the magnificent folios of a collection of 600-year-old manuscripts, tiny flakes of ancient parchment crumble away, and a portion of West Africa’s ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a significant five-nation tour, beginning with Ghana—the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to West Africa in over three decades. During the visit, he ...

Evolution: 150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Shakes Up Human History. Published Feb 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST Updated Mar 02, 2025 at 2:02 PM EST. By . ... near West Africa's southern coast.

"Cloth in West African History". Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2006. xix + 213 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7591-0422-8. Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History ...

Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. By Jean Allman and John Parker. Links the history of an African god to Ghanaian modernity. For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is ...