A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Models adorned in cowrie shells and batik dresses appear at the final day of Dakar Fashion Week in the ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: More jobs and no 'nuisance taxes' - Ghanaians' great expectations A love letter to attiéké, Ivory Coast's timeless ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: More jobs and no 'nuisance taxes' - Ghanaians' great expectations A love letter to attiéké, Ivory Coast's ...

Sadiq Khan said The Wake is "a stark reminder of the pain and suffering caused by transatlantic slavery and the role the UK and London played" A 23ft (7m) tall bronze cowrie shell has been chosen ...

1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...