Artifacts housed in the Barbados Museum, such as branding irons and iron shackles, serve as stark reminders of this harrowing ...

To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

Mali, Africa’s biggest cotton producer, plans to invest in clean energy and tackle issues like child labor and soil health to make its output more competitive in the European market. More than ...

The 350,000-acre Grumeti reserve, abutting the Serengeti in Tanzania, is one of east African conservation’s great success ...

Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans ...

Desi cotton, and African cotton. Among these, American cotton accounts for 90 percent of global production, Egyptian cotton 8 percent, and Desi and African cotton each approximately 2 percent.

African American influences are so fundamental to American music that there would ... in music video for "They Put Me in the Mix" National Museum of African American History and Culture Wooden clapper ...

A Kent museum has reopened with new Eastern African and natural history exhibitions. The Powell-Cotton Museum, in Birchington-on-Sea, welcomed the public through its doors last weekend to ...

The Powell-Cotton Museum is open from Friday to Monday, 11am to 4pm, until Friday, October 31. It costs £5 for adults and £4 for children, no booking required. The new exhibitions are included ...