Al Bakri, from the Book of Routes and Realms, Corpus of Early Arabic sources for West African History, Levtzion and Hopkins. Another trade route forged by Muslim traders went from Zawila (in what ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Joe Biden is finally making his long-promised visit to Africa to showcase a ...

When European traders set up trading posts in West Africa, this altered the geography of trade routes operating in Africa. These permanent bases – often operating for over a hundred years ...

The Trans-Saharan Trade Route from North Africa to West Africa was actually made up of a number of routes, creating a criss-cross of trading links across the vast expanse of desert. These trade ...

Influential economist Peter Bauer assesses the monopolistic tendencies inherent in West African trade structures as well as the repercussions of the colonial government's own, sometimes biased, ...

In 5th Century Ghana routes unfurled across the Sahara Desert, to trade salt – abundant in north-west Africa, including present-day Morocco – with gold from nations to the south such as Ghana.

What is happening in the West African sub-region in terms of free trade between member states is not something that we could be proud of' Mr Wally said. "Statistics gathered have provided evidence ...

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Abubakar Dantsoho, has called for enhanced technological collaboration ...