Of any region on the African continent, West Africa had the biggest concentration of ancient kingdoms and empires in its pre-colonial history. It’s no easy task to capture snapshots of …
Oral histories all agree that the Ashanti were originally part of a unified Akan clan that included the Fante, Wassaw and other Twi-speaking people. But it is in the specifics …
Many oral histories, myths and conjectures obscure the origins of the Bambara. Some claim their ancestors migrated from the Sahara desert. Others say they came from the Wassoulou River Valley, …