While some countries benefit from such protectionism, others face higher costs and supply chain disruptions that inevitably ...

Not all Nigerian people in pre-colonial Nigeria wore woven cloth ... 16th centuries at the beginning of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Nigerian area before the coming of colonial rule ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

During the pre- and colonial era, the Sea People were not passive victims but active naval forces – strengthening and defending local monarchies (sultanates and kingdoms) in the Sulu Archipelago, ...

Our insularity has protected the local commercial market from the vagaries of the global art industry, but it also keeps ...

Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

From bush foods to pies in a pub.

If you asked Ugandans, "What is Suriname?" most would likely give incorrect answers. Suriname is a country. Located 9,804 km from Uganda, on the northeastern coast of South America in the Amazon ...

Yet, as evidenced by the camera’s initial slow sweep of its contents, the library remained a memorial to colonial Africa ... archive footage — the pre-independence riots of the early 1960s ...