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The Kuba Kingdom — established in the 17th century in the Kasai region of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo — is one of the most celebrated art-producing civilisations in African history. At it

The Bamileke are a cluster of related chiefdoms in the Western Highlands of Cameroon — a region of fertile volcanic plateaus known as the Grassfields. Each chiefdom is ruled by a Fon (sacred king) who

The Baule are an Akan people of central Côte d'Ivoire, descended from a group that migrated west from the Ashanti kingdom of present-day Ghana in the mid-18th century. Their founder, Queen Aura Poku,

The Kingdom of Benin — centred on Benin City in present-day Nigeria — was one of the most sophisticated polities in pre-colonial Africa. At its height from the 13th to the 17th centuries, it controlle