Fonio, an ancient super grain from West Africa, is a nutritional powerhouse and a versatile ingredient that's easy to cook. It's not only beneficial for our health but also for the environment due to ...

A mysterious "ghost population" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say. Researchers suggest DNA from this group ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... 10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing ...

The Drimolen Cave Complex has yielded the fossils of ancient hominins "We collated all ... the first early human species to migrate out of Africa into the rest of the world. Not only is this ...

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...