Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

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Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

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Determined to discover the source, course, and mouth of the Niger River, this British explorer witnessed much more than just the tracing of its waters. His notes revealed the everyday life in Africa ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country.

The honorary doctorate – Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) in History – from the NWU’s Faculty of Humanities, stands as a ...

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...