Image caption, This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller ... This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African kingdoms ...

Image caption, This map shows Mansa Musa with an Arab traveller ... This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African kingdoms ...

During its reign, the kingdom of Oyo—which was in present-day southwestern Nigeria, parts of Benin and Togo—captured and enslaved an estimated 128,000 people from West Africa. Using geographic ...