Browsing: West Africa

Skulls and other human remains from the Ekoi (West Africa), Jivaro (South America) and Naga (India and Myanmar) peoples were recently listed for auction by Swan…

Ghana’s young people must urgently step up and reclaim the country by any means necessary. That’s this 70-year-old unnamed Ghanaian man’s passionate message during recent protests…

Israeli strikes on Lebanon are causing distress thousands of kilometres away. In West Africa, home to hundreds of thousands of Lebanese expats, the distance from family…

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president and a prominent poet, was born on 9th October, 1906. Under his leadership, the country cozied up to ex-coloniser France…

In 1498, Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) took a third voyage from Spain to the Americas to further extract wealth. Looking for new routes to Asia from Europe,…