In the Asante kingdom, goldsmiths made ornaments to show their king was rich. This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller. Mansa Musa is wearing a golden crown and holds a large gold coin in ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

Figure 1. Map of West Africa showing the location of Birimi. Map produced by S. Wood, Simon Fraser University. Recent palaeoethnobotanical investigations in northern Ghana have focussed on the ...