Africans were either captured in warring raids or kidnapped and taken to the port by African ... and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had ...

It is by far the oldest shipwreck ever found on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, and the richest ... as the stars were now familiar ports of call, part of the Portuguese vernacular, thanks ...

and experienced a late flush of prosperity when the British banned slave trading off the West African coast. The intervention of the Portuguese was periodically highly disruptive, but the people ...

Heritage pride in the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro is just one important symbol of a 3,000-plus-word legacy that is still ...

This was after Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama visited the East African Coast and discovered the route ... ridge and overlooking the Mombasa Old Port, took place between 1593 and 1596 after ...

Elmina Castle was built on the coast of what is now Ghana as a fortified trading post by Portuguese traders in 1482. It was the first trading post in that region of Africa. Initially, European ...

Duarte Pachece Pereira, Portuguese Explorer ... by sponsoring many voyages of discovery along the western coast of Africa. Prince Henry had several reasons for dispatching his expeditions.

and Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The collective alleges that the 2022 sale of Bolloré Africa Logistics, whose profits came from these allegedly illegally obtained port concessions, amounted to money ...