King Ghezo ruled the west African kingdom of Dahomey from 1818 ... The study’s authors explained that the kings of Abomey (Dahomey’s ancient capital) were “God-kings,” whose culture ...

10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The ...

It is a common practice to divide African history into three epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on ...