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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the trading, primarily of...
The 50 largest metropolises of Africa 2005. A metropolis is a big city, in most cases...
Organisation of African Unity members, with date of joining. Blue shows the founding members.
Colonial Africa in 1913
The Bantu are thought to have originated from the the area of Nigeria/Cameroon, and started their...
A 1729 map, showing the Slave Coast, Negroland and Guinea with the European settlements, explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark, etc...
The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa 1235-1546
Diachronic map showing pre-colonial cultures of Africa (spanning roughly 500 BC to 1500 AD)
Ghana Empire at its Greatest Extent.
The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was an African state of west Africa....
European territorial claims of Africa in 1913
Mitochondrial DNA in Africa. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the DNA located in organelles called mitochondria, structures...