In the 17th century, Dahomey flourished under the protection of its all-woman military regiment that inspired Viola Davis's acclaimed film The Woman King. From the late 1600s to the early 1900s, the ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...

Andrew Kenrick received funding from the Consortium for the Humanities & the Arts South-East England (CHASE). Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African ...

In December 1821, the U.S. Navy schooner Alligator, under the command of Lt. Robert F. Stockton, sailed down Africa’s Windward Coast to anchor off a rocky headland known as Cape Mesurado. The ...

Did you know that by 2050, fully a quarter of the planet's population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and ambitious population, the continent remains the ...

Real Madrid host Barcelona in El Clasico on Sunday, the first showdown of the season between the LaLiga giants.