In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown ... Founded in 1672, the Royal African Company was granted a similar monopoly in the slave trade. Between 1680 and 1686, the Company transported an ...

Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly African institution. The association between Africa and slavery emerged in the ...

The "Door of No Return" - the last bit of African soil the slaves touched before being sent to the Americas On Tuesday, Mrs Trump visited, alongside Ghana's First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo ...

It served as a warehouse for the goods that were used to buy slaves. It was also a brief holding point for those who had been kidnapped in different parts of West Africa before being shipped to ...

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has revived the subject of reparations to Africa for the monstrous injustice meted on the continent by the slave trade. He is right. When the story of Africa's ...