Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The new research could change history's understanding of the sprawling trade network that connected Europe and the Middle ...

COLUMN: Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes ...

Africa's current power development road map bodes well for clean-power supporters, with 50% more clean capacity than ...

The pyramids from the Kingdom of Kush form one of the most spectacular sights in Sudan Africa has a rich and complex history but there is widespread ignorance of this heritage. A celebrated ...

What is an African forest elephant? Of the two species of African elephants, forest elephants are both smaller and more rare than their cousins, African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana).

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

There are many countries around the world said to resemble animals from rabbits to rhinos, with one in Africa appearing to ...

2021 should be another bumper year for African music. We've taken a look at who's innovating in terms of style and sound, as well as who is exploring new genres, to come up with our list of who to ...