Africa's incredible city that was 'one of the great capitals of the ancient world'
This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful ...
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Benin and other West African kingdoms
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 ...
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Ancient Ghana
Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence ...
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The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective.
Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...
Bringing a tyrannical Ethiopian queen and her twins to life
Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work - a compelling audio drama about an increasingly tyrannical queen and her scheming twin ...
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From Africa to the World—Mansa Musa epic musical theatre hits the stage
One of the most colourful and interesting periods in ancient West African history is set to be relived in an epic musical theatre production titled ‘Mansa Musa and the Trail of Lost Gold, The Prelude’ ...