Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl ...

Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly African institution. The association between Africa and slavery emerged in the ...

The slave trade was a heinous malpractice that relocated countless people from Africa across the ocean as slaves under ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade. Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigeria and Africa to break free from the lingering effects of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism to achieve meaningful ...

Whether born slave or free, African Americans in the North found themselves at the center of the conflict over slavery. Read about three African Americans who became well-known for their ...

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating ...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, Nigeria, as an example of modern-day slavery. Soyinka addressed the ...