African History and historiography from the earliest time to the present, as well as summarised blog posts with the tag, “African History Timeline”
Africa is the continent with the first civilisation in the world. There are many works of African scholars to confirm this statement. Africa is the mother and cradle of all the continents.
While there are a lot of history websites that publish numerous works on African history and trends in Africa that are worthy of historical study, there are tens of thousands of many other things that are yet to be discovered or yet to be put to the world to appreciate.
Firstly, you will be reading simple but understandable articles about African history in this category and also a series of notable events in African history in summarised blog posts.
The very aim of this category is to be a very strong internet library for lovers of African history.
Introduction A clear understanding of the geography of South Africa throws much light on its historical development. For instance, the attraction of the Europeans to the Cape as well as…
Who Are the Bantu People The Bantu were similar groups of inhabitants who had settled in South Africa thousands of years ago. The Bantus included the Sotho, Ovambo, and the…
Who are the Mangbetu Tribe? Lipombo is a practice (among the Magbetu people) of deforming the skull to take to desire patterns. Mangbetu people are a tribe in central Africa,…
Slave trade simply is a trade where people are traded as articles of trade. The term widely gained prominence by the obnoxious trans-Atlantic slave trade in which European merchants, regulated…
The Fatimids were an Islamic religious movement of an Ismaili branch of the Shi’a sect, of the Hashemite clan in the Banu Quraysh tribe. The Fatimids claimed descent from Fatima,…
The colonization of West African countries that lasted for over five decades has enduring legacies in West Africa; some of these legacies are negative and direct opposition to the course…
The Cold war of 1945-1991 was an ideological conflict between the capitalist NATO, under the United States of America and the communist USSR by Russia. It was a world war…
Pre-colonial political structure in West Africa in reality rose to fame and standard with different responsible factors. In other words, pre-colonial West African political disposition developed gradually as results of…
Introduction The partition of African territory by the European powers- majorly Germany, France, Britain and Belgium- occurred officially at the Berlin Conference of 1884/85. This event was championed by the…