African History
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A collection of data on the history of mankind • 18 items • Updated • 5
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome. | finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast. | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note-on-contacts-between | Few classical civilizations were as impactful to the foreign contacts of ancient African states and societies like the Roman Empire.
Shortly after Augustus became emperor of Rome, his armies undertook a series of campaigns into the African mainland south of the Mediterranean coast. The first of the Roman campaigns was... | 2024-06-09T16:20:45+00:00 | {
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894) | Journal of African cities chapter 10. | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-complete-history-of-abomey-capital | Abomey was one of the largest cities in the "forest region" of west-Africa; a broad belt of kingdoms extending from Ivory coast to southern Nigeria. Like many of the urban settlements in the region whose settlement was associated with royal power, the city of Abomey served as the capital of the kingdom of Dahomey.
Hom... | 2023-09-10T16:07:18+00:00 | {
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. | In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-of-womens-political-power | In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a discrete object of exaggerated importan... | 2023-10-08T14:31:04+00:00 | {
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. | Africa's past carved in ivory | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-of-the-loango-kingdom-ca1500 | For more than five centuries, the kingdom of Loango dominated the coastal region of west central Africa between the modern countries of Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville. As a major regional power, Loango controlled lucrative trade routes that funneled African commodities into local and international markets, chief among whi... | 2023-05-07T12:45:51+00:00 | {
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864) | On the contribution of Muslim women in African history. | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/life-and-works-of-africas-most-famous | Throughout its history, Africa has produced many notable women scholars who contributed greatly to its intellectual heritage.[1](https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/life-and-works-of-africas-most-famous#footnote-1-144303681) But few are as prominent as the 19th-century scholar Nana Asmau from the Sokoto empire in wha... | 2024-05-05T15:29:26+00:00 | {
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali. | At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong". | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire-of-kong-ca-1710-1915-a | At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in _**"a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".**_
These legendary mountains of Kong subsequently appeared on maps of Africa and became the subject of all kinds of fanciful stori... | 2024-07-28T14:49:07+00:00 | {
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862) | the sucessor of Songhai | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-of-the-massina-empire-1818 | Buried in the pages of an old west African chronicle is a strange prophecy foretelling the emergence of a charismatic leader from the region of Massina in central Mali. According to the chronicle, the Songhai emperor Askiya Muhammad was transported into a spiritual realm where he was told that he would be suceeded as ‘... | 2023-07-09T15:05:06+00:00 | {
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations | plus, the Nok Neolithic culture. | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note-on-the-origin-of-african | Beginning around 12,000 years ago, a wide-ranging set of developments emerged independently in several societies across the world. Plants and animals were domesticated, pottery and advanced tools appeared, and settlements were established. This archeological period, often refered to as the 'Neolithic' or 'Late stone Ag... | 2023-10-28T16:17:55+00:00 | {
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Demystifying the land of Punt and locating ancient Egypt's place in African History | On early state formation in the northern Horn of Africa (2700BC-800BC) | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/demystifying-the-ancient-land-of | "_**“Why have you come here in this land, which the people do not know? Did you come down on this (...TRUNCATED) | 2022-11-27T15:01:03+00:00 | {
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa | plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions | https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note-on-the-history-of-music | "The continent of Africa is home to some of the oldest and most diverse range of musical traditions,(...TRUNCATED) | 2023-11-12T16:25:14+00:00 | {
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