Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African ... Kingdom of Benin became part of the British Empire. Image caption, The Obas of ...

The empire existed for nearly 400 years in total. It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa ... from the British Empire. Figure caption, The Ghanaian flag was designed by Theodosia ...

No one inside the Hall seemed a convert to Gladstone's unpopular doctrine of diminishing Empire. Mahdi. Hulton Getty Picture Archive. The Queen's experience of colonial Africa had been even more ...