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

We review the Monumental African Empires, published Fuforge Games. African Empires is an expansion to Monumental with new ...

Centuries before European nations exerted imperial rule across the globe, the Moors—people from powerful North African civilizations—held a stronghold over much of Europe, introducing ...

But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman Empire of Morocco ... have staked out a claim to a slice of northwest Africa roughly equal in area to Western Europe. Last week they were ...

Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, it evolved into new forms of neocolonialism, foreign-backed coups ...

But the fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t the fifth century’s only major event. Among other happenings spanning the globe: Pre-Hispanic metropolises were thriving, a Western African empire was ...

I suspect that one reason Black Americans are drawn to ancient Egypt is that it may seem grander, more advanced than the West African empires. But that impression is based partly on how well Egypt ...