During its reign, the kingdom of Oyo—which was in present-day southwestern Nigeria, parts of Benin and Togo—captured and enslaved an estimated 128,000 people from West Africa. Using geographic ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the ...

Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the ...