The fifth edition of the ‘Door of Return’ celebration, organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), saw ...

The previous essay showed that in the 1400s, Africa was not a “dark continent” but a continent of light — a leader in knowledge, trade, and culture. Cities like Timbuktu rivaled Oxford and Cambridge ...

The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, visiting Kilwa in 1331, described it as one of the most beautiful and well-built cities he had ever seen (Ibn Battuta, 1929). By the 1400s, when Vasco da Gama ...

Across eight galleries featuring ten artists, ‘Echoes in the Present’ is curated by the Nigerian art historian Jareh Das ...

Opinion - If the slave trade uprooted millions, the Scramble for Africa uprooted entire nations. In the late 19th century, Europe turned its gaze once more to Africa--not just for people, but for land ...

For over four centuries, it served as the route of a colossal and cruel enterprise, the Transatlantic Slave Trade—that ...

Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore ...

In his excellent book full of hard truths, Lord Biggar robustly deals with the spurious case for slavery reparations ...

Borders were often redrawn due to colonization, wars, and political agreements, leading to the disappearance of some nations that once held sovereignty. While these countries may no longer exist, ...

So-called "decolonisation" is threatening to become expensive. Last month the African Union joined the Caribbean Community in ...

Yet, in recent decades, there has emerged in the West a perverse distortion of this impulse: the demand for financial ...

No fewer than 100 foreign nationals of African descent from 18 countries, mostly from the Caribbean and the United States, ...