The Trans-Saharan Trade Route from North Africa to West Africa was actually made up of a number of routes, creating a criss-cross of trading links across the vast expanse of desert. These trade ...

In this way, an extensive network including sub-Saharan rural areas and trans-Saharan trade routes took shape. The glass beads uncovered in Africa do not only come from the well-known junk cargoes ...

Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, says the trans-Saharan roads linking Abuja with Algiers in Algeria will be completed in three years. Fashola said this during a joint ...

This Mauritanian city, once a stop along the trans-Saharan trade route, boasts 13 libraries and some 6,000 manuscripts. Their teachings range from Islamic law to poetry to mathematics. Preserving ...

Ghanaian historian John Coleman De Graft Johnson Judar took control of the city and advanced toward Timbuktu and Djenné, controlling trans-Saharan trade routes, as planned by the Saadi sultan.

This strongly suggests that trans-Saharan trade began hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Caravans of thousands of camels laden with packages once crossed the desert, bringing gold ...

Centuries ago caravans with thousands of camels used to travel along this important trans-Saharan trade route, but new national borders and the advent of the truck have left it defunct.