William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European ... The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry ...

Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and ...

A mysterious "ghost population" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say. Researchers suggest DNA from this group ...

10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to ... roughly running parallel with the coast. Then it curved round to the south ...

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has stunned ... and one that has led to both applause and consternation in West Africa and further afield. Earlier this month, Alassane Ouattara, 78 ...