Our dear scholars in Africa remember everything about the 100-year colonial interregnum - the laws, the governance structures, the institutions - and promote them with religious zeal. Yet they forget ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these ... shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African ...

Initially emphasis was placed on the ancient African empires and kingdoms and on the battles for independence. But since then, African historians have become more questioning about events in their ...

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African ... fall of empires and kingdoms ...

ALSO READ: 5 most prominent ancient African kingdoms In the northern ... Meanwhile, in the south, notable kingdoms included the Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo, the Benin Kingdom, the Ibibio-Efik ...

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This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

The African Union heads of state and government convened the 38th AU Summit during the previous two days and wrapped up tonight. And the African Union endorsed the theme "Justice for Africans and ...