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 ...

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 ...

The failure of the trade for that period, as far as we could learn, had no other effect than to restore peace and confidence among the natives, which, upon the arrival of ships, is immediately ...

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 ...

What was the triangular trade? Find out how the triangular trade based on the enslavement of African people developed and was organised. What did the triangular trade do for British ports?

AFRICAN Export–Import Bank's (Afreximbank) consultant Ebuka Okaja says the bank provides support to buyers to source and purchase from Africa as part of its efforts to support intra-African trade.

This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of ...

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 ...

Africa is home to the world’s largest free trade agreement, in terms of number of countries, territory, and population – the ...

It is often said that African countries trade more with countries outside the continent than amongst themselves, in part as a legacy of the old colonial development model. Bolstering intra-Africa ...

The outcome of the election would have serious trade implications for Africa. Apart from enhancing income-generating capacity, driving down prices and supporting economies of scale, trade can lift ...

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.