The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what ... are the sons of the vassal kings of his country, wearing splendid garments and their hair plaited ...

The 20th king of the Bamoun people, Mouhammad Nabil Mfourifoum Mbombo Njoya, stood up from his ornate throne -- a replica of the original, now at a German museum -- for the ancient ritual to get ...

The ancient ... the eight Snake kings who ruled during Tikal’s hiatus, he’s one of just two whose remains have been found. The next time the Snakes appeared was far to the west, in the lavish ...