Portuguese explorers aimed to spread Catholicism in Africa, colonize both people and ... who would be sold into the transatlantic slave trade. This arrangement provided a model that other European ...

Portuguese-Brazilian merchants ... then began operating their own slave trade, establishing commercial connections on the African coast. Like the other traders, they exchanged cane spirits and ...

Mozambique itself carries the name of Mussa bin Bique, an Arab Muslim slave-master who was the sultan or ruler of Mozambique ...

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

A luxury turned addiction. In the year 1850, the average person consumed just 1.8 kilograms of sugar annually. Today, that ...

Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of ...

The history of Brazil, Palmares, and Zumbi illustrates how state efforts to whitewash national narratives can backfire.

In kitchens and restaurants across the Black diaspora, the peanut reigns supreme.

NAMIBIA has held its first ever Remembrance Day for a horrific colonial genocide committed Germany in the 1900s. Between 1904 ...

Islands intensify human experience, symbolising both utopia and despairGorée Island revealed the dark legacy of slavery and reshaped the author’s wor ...