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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

For 2024, a second stage was added to the women's race through sponsorship from Zwift, making it the only women's stage race in west Africa. There was also a one-day race for junior men alongside ...

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.