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

Trio of organisations launch initiative to generate carbon credits from African cotton farming; US EPA takes wrecking ball to environmental regulation; CERAWeek: Glo ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...