As I stand at its base, straining my neck to take in its towering, wooded slopes, it’s easy to understand why Le Morne mountain is such an emotive cultural symbol for Mauritians. In the island’s south ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The wings of Ghana and belly of America, Goldstar Air, a private international airline with an issued Air Carrier License ...

NOBEL laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has weighed in on the reparation for Africa debate, recommending what he termed ‘The ...

The UN marked the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, with Secretary-General ...

Now, that slaveowner happened to be an out and out sadist. He not only ran a domestic amphitheatre of death, he was more than ...

Wealthy nations have fueled their industrial growth and urbanization by burning fossil fuels. This is the biggest cause of ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said slavery, in its modern form, is not yet dead, but rife on the African continent.

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

In 1517, the Ottoman Empire conquered the Mamluk Sultanate, expanding its reach over trade routes and solidifying its role in the African and Mediterranean slave trades. The treatment of Jews ...