West Africa’s engagement with the Atlantic world through slavery, legitimate commerce and colonialism from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century shaped the demography of the African-forced ...

Iron age archaeology -- Settlement and political archaeology -- Settlement organisation -- Stonewalling -- Central cattle pattern -- Moor park cluster -- Ntsuanatsatsi cluster -- Zimbabwe pattern -- ...

Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light on some of these ...

The prevailing assumption in modern gender discourse is that African women were historically marginal, subordinated, or politically irrelevant until their supposed “liberation” through Christianity, ...

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