Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

North Africa has a significant opportunity—an opportunity to deepen its cooperation, trade and integration with sub-Saharan ...

This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, and the trans-Saharan trade routes through which ...

Mali's troubled tourism sector crosses fingers for comeback ...

After a decade of instability caused by Boko Haram's activities, Yobe State is regaining its position as a regional economic force through the construction of modern markets in the border towns of ...

Nigeria plans to execute over 60 gas projects under its Gas Master Plan 2026 to boost production, drive industrialization, ...

Inconsistent regulations are deterring African energy investors, warns Nigeria's NUPRC, calling for unified policies to ...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) chief executive, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, has urged the ...

Football, at its best, is a civil religion: it compresses a nation into ninety minutes, turns gestures into symbols, and makes the crowd believe that fate has a scoreboard. At its worst, it invites a ...

Ecology and trade in West Africa -- The desert-side economy of the Central Sudan -- The Borno salt industry -- Kola in the history of West Africa -- Wangara merchants in the Central Sudan in the 15th ...