By 1830, the total number of free blacks had risen to 319,000, with 150,000 living in the North. While most African Americans lived in poverty, some were able to become financially solvent ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives ... of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

Senegal, the westernmost country in West Africa and situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline, is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513 ... The outlines of the North African coastline are generally well-drawn, particularly in areas ...

Kemet (or Ancient Egypt) for example, is one of the most notable early African civilizations. Mansa Musa, King of Mali on a map of North Africa circa 1375 (Credit: Fotosearch/Getty) Mansa Musa ...

Ho, Jul 17, GNA – For the second time in the roll, the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) sovereign portfolio has been acknowledged as the most transparent, according to Publish What You Fund ...

A new wave of blockchain and tokenization projects is helping African farmers access revenue, investments and loans to build ...

The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that ... Dearborn in Michigan ...

Kyiv responds to report it could be ‘months away’ from developing nuclear weapons - Kyiv does not possess, develop or intend ...

And in occupied Crimea, a senior Russian naval officer has been killed in a bomb attack claimed by Kyiv. According to a Kyiv ...