In most Western history books, the history of Africa before the bloody and gruesome age of colonialism is barely touched on, ...

10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The ...

22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of ... Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 ...