An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time ...

European powers began trading for gold and other commodities in West African from the 15th Century: As rival European powers fought for control of trade, trading posts were expanded into heavily ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she ...

This course is available to General Course students. What role did West Africa and West African people play in the Atlantic world? In this module, we will investigate how African political communities ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has sounded the alarm over the growing food crisis across West Africa ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

Four Guyanese nationals were among six people arrested following the discovery of 6.3 tonnes of cocaine aboard a ...

How will people adapt to flavors that they’ve never had before ... starchy attieke (fermented cassava couscous), with Portlanders. Her goal of sharing West African culture with the world was coming to ...

Estimates suggest that 77 per cent of these enslaved people (10.1 million) were 'produced' along the west and west central coasts of Africa between 1701 and 1850. This is almost 10 per cent of the ...