There are 18 African countries who are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. (Zimbabwe decided to leave in 2003.) All but two were British colonies or dominions. Cameroon was partially ... Read More

In 2005 the Walt Disney Company donated a 525-piece collection of mainly West African traditional art the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. The collection has art from 75 different ... Read More

"Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. ... Read More

Dr Jonas Malheiro Savimbi had survived several assassination attempts, but on 22 February 2002 he was caught in machine-gun fire and suffered at least 15 bullet wounds to his entire ... Read More

According to an article on BBC News Online, "Jacksons star in Nigeria resort row", Michael Jackson's brother, Marlon, is part of a group planning to create a slavery theme park ... Read More

"Everything around here is financed by the French government. We ask the French for money, we get it and waste it." "One cannot create a great history without sacrifices, and this ... Read More

The current round of human rights violations against the MDC and its supporters in Zimbabwe has hit the headlines. But who is actually behind it all? An article in the ... Read More

A recent statement from the South African Revenue Service, SARS, had a few interesting statistics: 2,103,493 South Africans had registered with SARS to do their tax returns online, and this ... Read More

"I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa." Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, from a translation of his inaugural speech as Chair of ... 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 "Wind of Change" speech was made by the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, whilst addressing the South African Parliament during his tour of African Commonwealth states. It was a ... Read More

"The wind of change is blowing through this [African] continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept ... Read More

Considered the father of pharaonic history, Manetho wrote his Aegyptiaca, which gave details of 30 Egyptian dynasties (a term he coined), around 300 BCE. It is the basic structure we ... Read More