Forty years after Prince Henry's expeditions first acquired gold dust and twenty-one years after the Prince's death, Portugal began constructing a trading outpost on Africa's Guinea coast, near a ...

Between the early 16th century and the middle of 19th century, the wicked trade in humans was booming. Millions of Africans had their freedom taken from them. They were forcefully captured, held under ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It takes four hours on an un-air-conditioned minibus called a tro-tros to get from Accra, the capital of Ghana, to the ...