West Africa emerged as the world’s fastest-growing gold production region, fueled by untapped reserves and increasing interest from global investors, particularly from Canada, China, and Australia. On ...

Image caption, This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller ... This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African kingdoms ...

At the time, the Mali empire extended through 2,000 miles of West Africa, from what today is Niger in the east, through parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and ...