JUST as the British were getting thoroughly fed up with Kosoko’s uncompromising encouragement of the slave-trade, Akintoye addressed a beautifully-worded petition to Beecroft in 1851 in which, among ...

For many descendants of enslaved Africans, a formal apology for the transatlantic slave trade is not justice. As calls for ...

While the history of the South Asian diaspora readily maps on to the contours of the British empire, this is not the full ...

South Africa has asked the United States to exempt it from proposed tariffs tied to a U.S. investigation into the enforcement ...

E conomists in Africa speak enviously of the “green revolution” that transformed Asia from the 1960s onwards, when new ...

The green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), which is indigenous to West Africa, is not naturally found in the Caribbean islands.

A writer's search for her Jamaican ancestors reveals how the largest efforts yet to digitize and connect slavery-era records ...

In this month’s newsletter: placing Black women and girls at the forefront, celebrating the Manchester experience and preserving Gullah Geechee land ...

One of the most respected higher-learning institutions in the United States, Yale University was named for American-born ...