16th century.Credit...Seth Caplan for The New York Times The exhibition also coincides with a moment of international consciousness-raising about Western colonialism in Africa, and the predatory ...

Full Ethiopian timeline One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history ... For more than 40 years during the 16th Century, it served as the capital of the Harari Kingdom, before becoming a ...

Sumayya Vally, the founder of the architecture firm Counterspace, was born in South Africa to Muslim parents ... undulating from the columns of the 16th-century Gaggiandre shipyards.

The skeletons of three 16th-century African slaves recovered from a mass grave in Mexico City are shedding new light on the early colonial-era slave trade. The remains were found in a grave on the ...

Cuba’s architecture ... in the late 16th Century and was imported to Cuba via Spain a century and a half later. However, due to the lack of skilled craftsmen in Cuba, where African slaves ...

The history of colonisation still stands tall across west African cities. Benin’s politicians pass laws in a French-built villa. Modernist architecture was brought to Ghana by British colonists.