A lot of the people reminded me of my grandparents, the way they wore their headscarves, their mannerisms, their mentality,” ...

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can ...

He had never been to West Africa before ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — in the south of present-day Benin — and revolves around the worship of spirits and ancestors through ...

DAKAR, Senegal — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent ...

The soldiers, disappointed not to find any of the kingdom’s legendary treasure, raised a French flag and drank Béhanzin’s gin ...

These West African kingdoms and empires developed ... They created centres of learning and culture at Timbuktu and Djenné. The Kingdom of Benin was founded by the Edo people.

Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

Mati Diop likes summoning spirits. In 2019’s Cannes-premiering Atlantics, the ghosts of young Senegalese men lost in the ...

He had never been to West Africa before ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — in the south of present-day Benin — and revolves around the worship of spirits and ancestors through ...

Benin has become the latest African nation to try to atone for its past with a new law granting citizenship to those who can ...