Using historical prices in Calabar in 1699-1700, and objects recovered from a shipwreck, it explains exactly what a human life was worth.

WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost

QUIST-ARCTON: Back in Calabar, many residents, including this university student, wonder whether their city should be playing host to an indicted war criminal.

NPR: Charles Taylor Still a Controversial Figure in Western Africa

The Dutch took the lead against Gambia in the Group C game in Calabar thanks to a 19th minute strike by Luc Castaignos.

BBC: Gambia lose, Burkina draw at U17

Last month, in the weeks running up to the Hajj - over 100 birds were found stuffed into crates at Calabar Airport, in Nigeria's far south-east.

BBC: Parrots start disappearing around the time of the Hajj

Down at Calabar's river-front marina, not far from Taylor's hilltop residence, sand and gravel worker Chris Love(ph) says the former Liberian leader is welcome to stay in Nigeria.

NPR: Charles Taylor Still a Controversial Figure in Western Africa

We welcome you to the city of Calabar.

NPR: Charles Taylor Still a Controversial Figure in Western Africa

Focusing almost exclusively on Congo, Dahomey (Benin) and Calabar (Nigeria), we're told how these African empires were primarily polytheistic, fought and traded with one another, formed alliances, arranged marriages and, yes, took slaves among themselves as spoils of war.

WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost

QUIST-ARCTON: And most of the other Calabar University students standing around Uncle Ike agreed with his view, but for now, Charles Taylor's spokesman says he has no intention of appearing before any war crimes tribunal and that he's staying in Nigeria, keeping fit playing tennis, and hoping eventually to return home to Liberia.

NPR: Charles Taylor Still a Controversial Figure in Western Africa