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Explainer: Implications of geopolitical crisis on West African trade relations
Since January 2025 when Niger, Niger and Burkina Faso and Mali officially withdrew their membership of the Economic ...
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Europeans Come to Western Africa
The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron ... and to locate a possible sea route to valuable Asian spices.
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Political tensions shake up trade routes in fractured West Africa
Niger and Burkina Faso will officially quit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday, following years of deteriorating relations that have redefined trade routes across ...
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A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe
Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese ... West Africa, such as the castle of São Jorge da Mina, built in the 1480s by John II of Portugal, which grew into a major African trade ...
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Empire of Ancient Ghana
The state of Takrur to the west had already adopted Islam as its official religion and established closer trading ties with North Africa ... Ghana and new trade routes were opening up further ...