Kwa chant about the disappearance of an African boy ... to buy and sell slaves. Slaves packed like cargo between decks often had to lie in each other's feces, urine, and blood.

It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...

An investigation by The Fuller Project and New Lines has found numerous violations of standards at De Beers’ partner ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…" Some of the descendants of African traders are alive ...

During the 17th century, the Agojie were a battle-hardened, all-female warrior force that held a special place within the African kingdom of Dahomey. Most were former slaves, with only the bravest ...

Instead, you would see tens of millions of native people already living in the Americas, joined by an extraordinary flow not of European colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th ...

From Kimberley comes news of the death of John O'Reilly, whose name is prominently associated with the discovery of the first diamond in the area now worked by the De Beers Corporation.

Searching for my slave roots Moving to Ghana 'to escape racism' The DNA study was led by consumer genetics company 23andMe and included 30,000 people of African ancestry on both sides of the Atlantic.

Diamonds mined in Africa are already subject to the Kimberley process, which ensures no "blood diamonds," diamonds mined in conflict zones, end up in the market. "Pushing everything to Antwerp is ...

Kwa chant about the disappearance of an African boy ... to buy and sell slaves. Slaves packed like cargo between decks often had to lie in each other's feces, urine, and blood.