Daniel Danino is the CEO and founder of Volta Metals, an international group focused on energy, industry and trading in EMEA. As someone who works with the mining and metals industries, I believe ...
Kumbi Saleh is regarded as one of the earliest major political and commercial capitals of West Africa. Located in present-day Mauritania, near the border with Mali, the city stood at the heart of the ...
Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana's gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade.The ...
The Ghana Empire -- The Mali Empire -- The Songhay Empire -- The Soninke people of the Ghana Empire -- The Mande people of the Mali Empire -- The XXX people of the Songhay Empire siris_sil_791357 ...
AD 500-1585 West African kingdoms -- AD 500-700 The Soninke -- AD 700 The salt-gold trade -- AD 700-1000 The land of gold -- AD 1050-1076 The Almoravids arrive in Ghana -- AD 1076-1203 The fall of ...
In the days that preceded March 6, 1957, when the Gold Coast shed its colonial label and stood on the brink of independence, its leaders reached back into West Africa’s deep past to settle on the name ...