While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Olufemi Farouk is a tour guide at the Mobee Slave Relics Museum in Badagri, Nigeria. 1010 WINS spoke with him about the ...

Students are working to build a database of names and biographies of 800 enslaved people who belonged to the Cobb-Lamar ...

Let no one be mistaken, it is well acknowledged by renowned scholars the world over that the transatlantic slave trade and the holocaust ... black nation on Earth, Nigeria through the UN ought ...

He was brought to America during the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1806 ... “A sub-group of African slaves from Nigeria who were shipped here. They were shipped here and we are doing their ...

By streamlining naturalization processes, Benin is establishing itself as a gateway for Afro-descendants reconnecting with ...

Nigeria's telecoms regulator has approved a tariff hike by operators-customers are groaning. A year after ground-breaking malaria vaccination campaigns were launched in Africa-we assess the progress.

The 38th African Union Summit is set to take place in Addis Ababa from February 14 to 16, 2025. This year's summit will focus on the theme "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...