African buildings: Hathor temple at Naqa (modern Sudan), ca. 10 AD African buildings in stone In the first centuries AD, African architects kept building more stone buildings, as trade continued to increase, [...]
African architecture: the pyramids at Giza, in Egypt, about 2500 BC First African buildings Africa was probably the place where people first built any kind of building, because people lived [...]
The religious faith of Islam, as it was practiced between about 650 and 1500 AD, was closely related to Judaism and Christianity. Like Jews and Christians, Muslims believed that there was only one God, [...]
History of Christianity: One of the earliest images of Jesus, from St. Callisto catacomb in Rome (ca. 250 AD) Empires and Christianity Around the time of the beginning of the [...]
Eto: yams before they are cooked What is Eto made of? Eto is a kind of food that people ate in West Africa. You cooked yams until they were soft, [...]
Early African board games: a simple Mancala game scratched into the dirt What were the first games? People have played games in Africa since before they were really even people, [...]
Early Khoisan art from Blombos Cave, South Africa (ca. 80,000 BC) South Africans get isolated The people who became the Khoisan started to split off from other humans about 200,000 [...]
West African history - Niger River, West Africa Early West Africa People have been living in West Africa for tens of thousands of years. There are several good-sized rivers - [...]
North African history: Punic houses in Carthage (146 BC) Who were the Berbers? The first people to live along the North African coast were Berbers. The Berbers were nomadic shepherds [...]
East African history: Debre Dano Christian church (Ethiopia, 500s AD) East Africa trading on the Indian Ocean Because it is on the coast, East Africa had contacts with India and Egypt [...]
