This drum is one of the oldest surviving African-American objects. The drum was collected in the early 1700s in the Colony of Virginia, now part of the United States of America. The drum, however, was ...

Humans were not the only ones transported during the era of slave trade, there were also items transported that now reside in some notable museums around the world. In the 17th and 18th century, slave ...

We think of jazz as the music of joyous rebellion and cool, the syncopated swing of an African-American musical tradition that came to dominate the twentieth century. But this music goes much further ...

So it is true that human beings and human culture began in Africa, eh? Homo sapiens evolved in Africa at least 150,000 years ago. The fact was brought home to us again when the director of the British ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Akan drum (made early eighteenth century). Made in West Africa, found in Virginia, USA We think ...

Visitors who take smartphones to the British Museum's Akan Drum exhibit will be able to download the soundtrack to the display. The museum's first interactive playlist features Miles Davis, Jimi ...