One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

US singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

Singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African ...