For the first time ever, Henry Lovejoy, a CU Boulder history professor, has mapped the boundaries of a fallen African kingdom best known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. During its reign, the ...

Image caption, This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller ... This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African kingdoms ...

That's over half of the continent. Map of African Empires and Kingdoms From ~500 B.C to 1500 A.D. Most people know of the ...