a ship's captain in the slave trade from Liverpool.These decorative glass beads were used to ease the passage of traders mainly across Africa. Similar beads are also found in the United States and ...

The Dabls Bead Museum draws thousands of annual visitors from around the world to see and purchase vintage African trade ...

and beads brought by boat from Europe. When Europeans arrived along the West African coast, slavery already existed on the continent. However, in his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

All African countries have strong potential for adding value to goods, to services, to resources that they produce…and being part of regional and global chains. Throughout human history, trade has ...

Softer than ivory, it can be finely carved into beads, figurines ... A carved casque is on sale at an antique market in Shanghai. It’s unclear why the trade recently took off, but since 2010 ...

Last year African countries signed an agreement aimed at increasing trade between them. If implemented successfully, they believe it could create a single African market of over a billion consumers.

Tranoï and Première Classe are growing their focus on events like runway shows in a drive to help the emerging designer and ...

Fearless music activists. Savvy tech entrepreneurs. Social disrupters. Into Africa shatters the narratives that dominate U.S. perceptions of Africa. Host Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Africa program director ...

With three of the eight candidates to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) coming from Africa, BBC Africa business editor Zawadi Mudibo looks at what difference having one ...

NAIROBI, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Rising Sino-African trade and infrastructure cooperation is fueling demand for the Chinese yuan in Africa, experts said Thursday in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.