The Trans-Saharan Highway is one of Africa's flagship regional integration projects, linking North and West Africa through a road network spanning more than 9,000 kilometers. First proposed in the ...

This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade ...

For thousands of years, trade routes have helped to define humanity and created our complex civilizations by allowing the flow of product, ideas, cultures, technologies and religions from one location ...