Eritrea, part of the long departed Axumite Empire, is a country created by the Italians out of a collection of warlord's domains. Even in African terms the country is little ... Read More

The state of some of Africa's once-fine universities is highlighted in a New York Times article titled "Africa’s Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling". It's not encouraging reading, and it's not ... Read More

When high-school students in Soweto started protesting for better education on 16 June 1976, police responded with teargas and live bullets. It is commemorated today by a South African national ... Read More

The South African Minister of Bantu Education and Development, MC Botha, issued a decree in 1974 that made the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools ... Read More

It is well known that one of the fundamental differences between the experiences of Whites and Blacks in Apartheid era South Africa was education. Whilst the battle against education in ... Read More

"Rwanda is clinically dead as a nation." Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1994. In 1994 approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death in ... Read More

From the early departure of the Germans under the Treaty of Versailles to the first-in-last-out stance of the Portuguese -- the struggle for independence was both long and bloody. Find ... Read More

The online English to Egyptian Hieroglyph Translator of Hieroglyphs.net lets you type in an English word and get the transliteration and hieroglyph (or the other way round). There is also ... Read More

For such a great explorer as Henry Morton Stanley there is surprisingly little biographical material in-print. John Bierman's 'Dark Safari' is probably the definitive biography of this larger-than-life figure, and ... Read More

Slaves for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were initially sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast. Around 1650 the trade moved to west-central Africa (the Kingdom of the Kongo and neighboring ... Read More

Discover the events which developed into the Suez Crisis and led to the invasion of the Suez Canal Zone by British, French, and Israeli forces in 1956, what's now called ... Read More