From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included ... including early African statehood, and it survives all the way till the late 19th ...

Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al ...