Born in Essaka, Kingdom of Benin (now in Nigeria) to an Igbo tribe elder, Olaudah Equiano (at the age of eleven) and his sister were kidnapped, separated, and sold to slave traders. He was transported across the Atlantic to Barbados. Along with other captured Africans, he was put up ...
Other experts argue that they could be antecedent, locating them further south, in thesub-Saharan territoriesof Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana. Finally, some historians hypothesize that the specialty was born in theClassical era, if not earlier (*2), inthe Berber kingdom of Numidia(*3)...
Human habitation in Niger is estimated to have started as early as 2 million years ago. Human settlements date as early as 7500 BCE. Apart from hosting the Songhai Empire and the Mali Kingdom, Niger was active in the trade of gold, salt, ivory, metals, and beads, among others. It was...