While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

In the Asante kingdom, goldsmiths made ornaments to show their king was rich. This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller. Mansa Musa is wearing a golden crown and holds a large gold coin in ...

Figure 1. Map of West Africa showing the location of Birimi. Map produced by S. Wood, Simon Fraser University. Recent palaeoethnobotanical investigations in northern Ghana have focussed on the ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...