History of Ghana – African History
Ghana history: A village in Ghana Ashanti Empire At the end of the Middle Ages, most of Ghana was divided into small villages, whose people called themselves the Ashanti. Most [...]
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History of Sudan – African History
A village near Sennar in 1823 Big changes came to Sudan about 1500 AD. About 1490, the Shilluk people - who called themselves the Chollo and worshipped African gods - seem [...]
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History of the Kongo
Mbanza Kongo, capital of the Kingdom of Kongo When did the Kingdom of Kongo form? By 1500 AD, the Kingdom of Kongo had been around for more than a hundred [...]
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African Clothing and Colonization
African clothing and colonization: this is Indian cotton cloth - ca. 1500 AD Africans imported cloth from India By 1500 AD, most people in Africa were making at least some [...]
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Ibn Battuta – an African traveler
Ibn Battuta on his travels Who was ibn Battuta? He was born in Morocco, in Africa, in 1304 AD. He was from a rich Muslim family, and he went to [...]
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Epic of Sundiata – African literature
Mosque at Djenne, Mali, built about 1200 AD (around the time of the Epic of Sundiata) Was Sundiata a real person? Nobody knows exactly how long the storytellers of West [...]
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History of Fire
History of fire: San men around a campfire The first campfires Probably people were all still in Africa when they first began to use fire for cooking, about 800,000 or [...]
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African Science and African Inventions – History of Science
African science: Standing stones at Nabta Playa (modern Sudan), ca. 6000 BC The earliest scientists African people made the earliest, and the most important, scientific inventions. And they kept on [...]
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Medieval African Economy
Medieval African economy: A salt caravan across the Sahara Desert West African caravan trade The African economy had always involved international trade. But trade became even more important in the [...]
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Early African Economy
Early African economy: Roman centaur lamp found at Meroe (Sudan, ca. 100 AD) African trade to Asia and India: cowrie shells African traders have been selling things to West Asian [...]
