Project backed by UNESCO secures and digitizes rare West African archives More than 2,100 manuscripts digitized and 4,000 documents cataloged Initiative aims to protect oral and written heritage and ...
NEARLY 800 YEARS AGO, Sundiata Keita founded the largest and greatest kingdom in West African history: the Mali Empire. At its height, around 1300, it stretched for some 2,000 kilometers west to east, ...
Explore the vibrant culture and history of Senegal, West Africa. Discover the resilience of the Senegalese people and the haunting legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit. More than 12 million Africans were enslaved during the ...
The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens. Of Europeans in the mid-19th century spreading through the arteries of the region, new ...
Reviewed by Spencer H. Brown in International journal of African historical studies (Boston) 5 (3) 1972, pages 533-537 (DT1.A2592 AFA) PEOPLES AND EMPIRES OF WEST AFRICA WEST AFRICA IN HISTORY ...
Chapter I. West Africa and its people -- Chapter II. The great empires of the Western Sudan -- Chapter III. Europeans and West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- Chapter IV. European ...
Carina Schlebusch receives funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Research Council. Cesar Fortes-Lima receives funding from the Bertil Lundman’s Foundation, the Marcus ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results