History of Africa History of Africa Adal was a sixteenth century sultanate located in East Africa north of Ethiopia, in modern Eritrea and Djibouti. At its height, the sultanate controlled large portions of Ethiopia and Somalia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adal"
The Conference called for the founding of African Freedom Day, a day to, “mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the People of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation.” ...more on Wikipedia about "African Liberation Day"
The African slavery trade dates back thousands of years and reportedly continues today in some isolated parts of Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "African slave trade"
African Uplands was a term commonly used by European scholars, especially in the 19th century. It refers to the region now commonly known as Sub-Saharan Africa. The term African Upland became an important element of philosophical and historical study at that time, especially because works by Hegel and theories deriving from the imputed characteristics of the history of the African Upland became the basis for the utopian vision of communism. For Karl Marx and others, the African Upland represented a model for the perfection of society. ...more on Wikipedia about "African Uplands"
Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the lives and creations of black people. More particularly, it often seeks to emphasize the contributions of black African peoples and the African diaspora over other peoples. Like any ideology or worldview, its proponents differ on many specific points but universally hold certain broad concepts to be true. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afrocentrism"
The Association Internationale Africaine ( French) was an organization created by King Léopold II of Belgium for supposedly furthering humanitarian projects in the area of Central Africa that was to become the Congo Free State and subsequently today's Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organization was created at the 1876 Brussels Geographic Conference to which Leopold invited nearly forty well-known experts, mainly they were schooled in the geographic sciences or were wealthy philanthropists. They hailed from a number of European countries. As a result, the Association was originally conceived as a multi-person, scientific, and humanitarian assembly but it quickly became dominated by Leopold and his economic interests in Africa. Originally, the stated goal of the group was to 'discover' the largely unexplored Congo and civilize its natives. The Association was intended to be a joint effort on the parts of all European countries present at the Conference, however, each nation formed its own national committee for exploration which would, in theory, share information with the whole of the Association, hence, a cooperative effort. However, national economic interests quickly took precedence over the group's supposedly philanthropic ideals. Each of these committees organized nationalized expeditions into the African interior and there was very little sharing of information, resulting in each nation claiming certain portions of African land for themselves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Association Internationale Africaine"
The Berlin Conference of 1884– 85 regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa. Its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, is often seen as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. In German it is referred to as Kongokonferenz ("Congo Conference"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Berlin Conference"
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Biffeche or Bifeche was the early name for a medium-sized island (Isle de Bifeche) in the delta ...more on Wikipedia about "Biffeche"
The Bokassa dynasty was the short-lived imperial house of the Central African Empire. It was founded in 1977 when the Central African Republic's president Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor. The monarchy ended in 1979 when Bokassa was deposed by a military coup. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bokasssa Dynasty"
Bono Manso (sometimes Bono Mansu) was an ancient trading town in what is now the Nkoranza district of the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. Located just south of the Black Volta river at the transitional zone between savanna and forest, the town was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade. Goods traded included kola nuts, salt, leather and gold; the latter was the most important trading good of the area from the middle of the fourteenth century on. During the Atlantic slave trade, Bono Manso was one of the regional slave markets. Bono Manso was instrumental in the formation of the Akan Bono state, of which it was the capital. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bono Manso"
Bono state was an Akan state which existed from the early middle ages to the 18th century in what is now the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. Its capital was Bono Manso (Bono-Mansu), an ancient market town the role of which in the Trans-Saharan trade was instrumental in the formation of Bono state. The state collapsed in the early 18th century. Upon the taking of Bono Manso by the Ashanti Confederacy in 1723, many residents of Bono Manso fled to Takyiman (or Tekyiman, Techiman, Takijiman). In 1740 the Bono-Tekyiman state, comprising roughly the same territory as the former Bono state, was founded more or less under Ashanti sovereignty. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bono state"
The Cape-Cairo Railway is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south to north by rail. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. While most sections of the Cape to Cairo railway are in operation, a major part is missing between Sudan and Uganda. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cape-Cairo railway"
The colonization of Africa has a long history, the most famous phase being the European Scramble for Africa of the nineteenth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colonization of Africa"
Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies), an organization for cooperation between the national liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies in Africa. CONCP was founded on April 18 1961 in Casablanca, Morocco by PAIGC, MPLA, FRELIMO and MLSTP. CONCP substitued Frente Revolucionária Africana para a Independência Nacional das colonias portuguesas (Revolutionary Front for the National Independence of the Portuguese Colonies). FRAIN had been founded by Amílcar Cabral of PAIGC and MPLA in Tunis 1960. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas"
*Kevin Shillington (1995). History of Africa (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan; Revised edition ISBN 0312125984 ...more on Wikipedia about "Decolonization of Africa"
It is today believed that humanity originated in Africa and as soon as human societies formed so did economic activity. Earliest humans were hunter gatherers living in small family groupings. Even then there was considerable trade, that could cover long distances. Archeologists have found that trade in luxury items like precious metals and shells crossed the entirety of the continent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Economic history of Africa"
The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was the last major European expedition into the interior of Africa in the 19th century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition came to be both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing "darkest Africa", and notorious, for the bloodshed and death left in its wake. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emin Pasha Relief Expedition"
The Fashoda Incident ( 1898) was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between the United Kingdom and France in Eastern Africa. It brought the United Kingdom and France to the verge of war but ended in a diplomatic victory for the UK. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fashoda Incident"
The Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá (in English St. John the Baptist of Ouidah Fort) is a small fortress build by the Portuguese in the city of Ouidah on the coast of Dahomey (originally Ajudá, from Hweda, on the Atlantic coast of modern Benin), reached by the Portuguese in 1580, after which it grew around the slave trade. The Fort, built in land given to Portugal by the King of Dahomey, remained under Portuguese control from 1721 until 1961. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá"
The term Hamitic refers to peoples traditionally believed to have been descended from Ham, one of Noah's sons. (See: Sons of Noah) Over history there have been several separate but interrelated interpretations of the term. In the Bible the sons of Ham are peoples who were traditionally enemies of the Jews, notably the Egyptians, and the Canaanites. While the Canaanites competed with the Isrealites for the same territory, typically Ham's sons were said to have fathered the peoples of Africa. Of Ham's four sons, Canaan fathered the Canaanites; Mizraim the Egyptians; Cush the Cushities and Phut Phutites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hamitic"
The Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty ( German: Helgoland-Sansibar-Vertrag) was an 1890 agreement between the United Kingdom and Imperial Germany concerning mainly territorial interests in Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty"
=== Evolution of hominids and Homo sapiens in Africa=== ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Africa"
Beginning on July 5, 1884, all of present-day Cameroon and parts of several of its neighbors became the German colony of Kamerun, with a capital first at Buea and later at Yaoundé. After World War I, this colony was partitioned between the United Kingdom and France under a June 28, 1919 League of Nations mandate. France gained the larger geographical share, transferred outlying regions to neighboring French colonies, and ruled the rest from Yaoundé as Cameroun (French Cameroons). Britain's territory, a strip bordering Nigeria from the sea to Lake Chad, with an equal population was ruled from Lagos as Cameroons (British Cameroons). ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Cameroon"
According to tradition, the people of the present Swazi nation migrated south before the 16th century to what is now Mozambique. Following a series of conflicts with people living in the area of modern Maputo, the Swazis settled in northern Zululand in about 1750. Unable to match the growing Zulu strength, the Swazis moved gradually northward in the 1800s and established themselves in the area of modern or present Swaziland. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Swaziland"
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