NEARLY 800 YEARS AGO, Sundiata Keita founded the largest and greatest kingdom in West African history: the Mali Empire. At its height, around 1300, it stretched for some 2,000 kilometers west to east, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In a captivating exploration of heritage through a transformative journey, Richmond native Rita Ricks shares her profound quest to Ghana and how it reconnected her with her ...

Yambo Ouologuem’s 1968 novel, “Bound to Violence,” which has just been reissued, opens with a bravura chapter chronicling the history of the fictional African empire of Nakem between the 13th and 19th ...

Abubakar Abubakar Usman is a research fellow with International Islamic University Malaysia Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF) and affiliated with the Asia Middle East Centre for ...

Kọ Café (pronounced “Koh”) is no stereotypical coffee shop. It’s a podcast studio, co-working and performance space, a hub of West African history, and a thriving Black-owned cultural mainstay in ...

The 7th International Symposium on West African Studies (ISWAS) opened on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) with a mandate that ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Ballet Spartanburg is welcoming you to learn about West African dance. The annual class is free and open to the community every Tuesday evening. “What we do is we ...

Western countries have reduced aid and military support to Africa, prompting African nations to pivot towards the east, particularly China ...