History of Africa, News, Maps, Photos & Podcasts

The exciting history of the Africa will come to life with these history timelines from the prehistoric times to the tumultuous struggle for independence and the 21st century.

Some great podcasts about contemporary Africa are included plus you can check up-to-date news sources.

Featuring videos of importance in African history and historical photos and pictures, key events in the African history are explained and relived.

Interactive timelines that you control on your phone or tablet with allow you to scroll through the centuries make it easy and fun to explore African history.

For many of these features, you must have a LIVE connection to the Internet.

Important people and events you will meet include:

1) A detailed timeline showing the events from 7 million years ago, Out of Africa II migration and the aftermath.

2) The Sahara desert.

3) First domestication of cattle in Africa.

4) Tropical climate of West Africa.

5) Metalworking introduced and began to become commonplace in West Africa.

6) Akan; Edo, Yoruba, and Igbo people in West Africa; and the Swahili coastal trading towns of Southeast Africa.

7) San people of southern Africa; family clan groupings of the Bantu-speaking peoples of central, southern, and eastern Africa; heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Sahelian kingdoms.

8) Pre-colonial Africa possessed perhaps as many as 10,000 different states and polities.

9) Earliest Hausa states from the western regions to central Sudan.

10) Ghana, Gao, and the Kanem-Bornu Empire.

11) Mali Empire in western Sudan in the thirteenth century.

12) Kanem in the eleventh century.

13) Kingdom of Nri.

14) Kingdom of Ife and Yoruba city-states or kingdoms.

15) Almoravids were a Berber dynasty from the Sahara.

16) Banu Hilal and Banu Ma'qil - a collection of Arab Bedouin tribes.

17) Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan.

18) Hausa states – such as Kano, jigawa, Katsina, and Gobir.

19) The horrors of the slave trade.

20) Colonialism and the European imperial powers.

21) The Congo Conference or West Africa Conference.

22) African independence movements.

23) Post-colonial Africa.

24) 21st century Africa to the present day with news, videos, photos and podcasts.

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