Kingdom, located in what is now modern-day Ghana, was one of the most powerful and influential states in West Africa during ...

African kingdoms did, and those kingdoms fought constantly ... However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between ...

This was particularly so in West Africa where, for example, the conflict between the kingdoms of Oyo and Dahomey resulted in prisoners of war being taken as slaves on both sides and then sold on ...

Should African governments benefit? Should the descendants of African slave traders be penalised? Can the slave trade be called a Holocaust when the intention of slave traders was not to kill ...

In West Africa there were a number of ... the king or Oba could see this was draining the kingdom of male manpower and he banned the sale of slaves. He did keep domestic slaves, but by 1550 ...

Analysis - A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave ...