Explore West African flavors rule at FAD in Marietta. Thiam also is the author of “The Fonio Cookbook” (Lake Isle Press, $24.95), which to my surprise features a recipe for beer made with ...

Damiba’s putsch was just the latest in a recent spate of coups in West Africa by U.S.-trained officers. But when Rolling Stone asked AFRICOM if Traore was the latest to follow in this tradition ...

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

West Africa is bracing itself for war. Military chiefs of the West African ECOWAS bloc have concluded a plan for the swift deployment of 3,300 troops. Those troops will come from Nigeria, Niger ...

For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably ...

Juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, is celebrated with a vibrant 'red spread.' This ...

Senegal is, in fact, the third government in West Africa to have restricted the internet to clamp down on protests since May 17 when social media in Guinea first went dark.

Two master drummer-dancers from West Africa will take the stage on Friday for the World Rhythms Concert, a concert that will feature local groups as well as University of Montana ...

West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was a language of commerce spoken along the coast during the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th Centuries.

The Rise of Afrobeats: From West Africa to The Diaspora 1950-2010. Reflecting on how African music crossed over into wider pop culture.

Where: The Agora African Drum Beat Circle is hosted at Taste of West Africa, 116 Person St. in Fayetteville. When: Starts at 7 p.m. and runs until 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday from April 8 to Aug. 26 ...

1945 - the fifth pan african congress This was held in Manchester in the north west of England. There were ninety delegates, twenty six from all over Africa.