From 1958 to 1975 this region was a Spanish Overseas Province. In 1975 an International Court of Justice granted self-determination to Western Sahara. Spain responded by granting the region independence ... Read More

From an ancient African civilization which developed writing and agriculture, Egypt underwent several periods of foreign domination: starting with Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, cycling through the Ptolemaic Greeks, ... Read More

The above saying is all too real in Africa, all the more since the South African government has announced that elephants can be culled again after a ban of 13 ... Read More

"So what is it with Africa? Yeah. I posed this question in Rwanda after the genocide: what is it in our society that makes us periodically turn on each other? ... Read More

The Tripartite Invasion, or 1956 War, was perhaps the single most important event in the history of African independence. The fallout from this unsuccessful attempt by Britain, France, and Israel ... Read More

Many South Africans are the descendants of slaves brought to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. Slavery in the colony was ended only in the 1830s. Trace the history ... Read More

Starting in 1948, the Nationalist Government in South Africa enacted laws to define and enforce segregation. What makes South Africa's apartheid era different to segregation and racial hatred that have ... Read More

Two thousand years ago the first of several waves colonists swept into South Africa. Each time a new wave arrived the existing populations were marginalized. In the first of these ... Read More

Although slavery has been practiced for almost the whole of recorded history, the vast numbers involved in the African slave trade has left a legacy which can not be ignored. Whether ... Read More

After imprisonment for 27 years, Nelson Mandela is finally released by South Africa's Apartheid regime. Mandela walked out of the gates of Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, and was whisked away ... Read More

According to Ancient Egyptian history (as written by the Egyptian historian Manetho, c305--285 BCE), Menes was the founder of the unified Egyptian state which combined Upper and Lower Egypt under ... Read More

The American Colonization Society (its full name was the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States) arranged for its first wave of colonizers to ... Read More

The merger of the two nations, Egypt and Syria, had first been proposed to Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first step towards a revolutionary pan-Arab state in the ... Read More