Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

One of the most interesting animals of West Africa, the small crocodiles live among the rainforests, swamps, and rivers of the region and spend most of their time in the water, though they may ...

A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometer (12,400-mile) trek across ...

Photograph by Ami Vitale The giraffes we have chased for a week are the descendants of some 50 animals that made their way to the West African country of Niger in the late 1980s, when drought and ...

Brass-workers in the kingdom of Ife made brass figures of gods, humans and animals. In the Asante kingdom ... From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient ...