Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned the first phase of a 2,000-unit military barracks project and a fleet of 50 ...

Lt. j.g. Stacie Powell, a 49-year-old wife, mother and grandmother, is the first female active-duty Navy chaplain endorsed by ...

The USS Cincinnati has arrived at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, marking the first U.S. Navy warship docking there since its ...

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

Given the trend of our conversation, the question caught me off guard temporarily, though it did not totally surprise me ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

Dr Gladys West, the trailblazing American mathematician whose quiet brilliance underpinned the development of modern Global ...

Angola’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 17.5%, the lowest level since October ...

Ghanaian optometrist Dr Jerome Emmanuel Abaka-Cann has made history after becoming the first Ghanaian—and one of only two ...

Britain’s Royal Navy said on Friday (January 16) its first full-sized autonomous helicopter, designed to track submarines and ...