Book Review: Recherches Archéologiques sur la Capitale de l'Empire de Ghana (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 41, BAR S680).By Sophie Berthier. Archaeopress, Oxford, 1997, 143 pp.

Koumbi Saleh

Koumbi Saleh, sometimes Kumbi Saleh is the site of a ruined medieval town in south east Mauritania that may have been the capital of the Ghana Empire.

History of West Africa

The history of West Africa began with the first human settlements around 4,000 BCE. It has been commonly divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the major…