In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

But the internal African slave trade in empires like Mali, Songhai, Ashanti, Dahomey or Egypt was the most pervasive and according to historians, more black people were enslaved within Africa by ...

Badawi does not come off as an African voice for African history, but instead the latest, and far from the best, in a long line of British academics taking on the task of writing about Africa.

It is the smallest country on mainland Africa, with a narrow, elongated shape that follows the Gambia River, which flows ...

It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

BY the terms of the armistice with Germany and Italy which came into effect on June 25, 1940, the Pétain government laid down ...

Fanatical Moroccan nationalists have staked out a claim to a slice of northwest Africa ... British before it was reaching out for the Sudan. But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman ...

The monument was constructed in 1834, a years after slavery was abolished across the British Empire. The display includes letters from the early American colonist John Winthrop, organisers says.