This is a photograph of Amadou Sar and one of the reasons that he in particular is here on the western front is because his people, the Wolof tribe of West Africa, were one of those peoples that ...

African chiefs would trade enslaved people captured from rival kingdoms or tribes. Other Europeans set up permanent trading camps or forts on the West African coast. They lived there themselves ...

Several shipments of material illustrating the daily life of the primitive tribes of the southern, Cameroon region in West Africa, and constituting a collection believed to be without parallel in ...