Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to be granted Benin citizenship through a new law aimed at offering ...

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Even before the publication in 1969 of Philip Curtin’s seminal book, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, historians and others have been engaged in debates and analyses of the effects of the ...

Over 250 years after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, some West Africans are still trying to come to terms with the involvement of African rulers and slave merchants. For National ...

It had nothing to do with the Atlantic slave trade, but with colonial rule. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi agreed to reparations with President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.