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General African History provides an overall view of the history of the African continent. Explore Africa’s defining moments and most significant historical events.
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August 5: Nelson Mandela Arrested
Nelson Mandela was arrested on August 5, 1962. This arrest set in motion a chain of events that made Nelson Mandela a household name around the world.
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How the African Diamond Trade Works
Africa produces around 60 percent of the world's diamonds, but a few of those are mined illegally, with the profits going to fund terror and violence. How can it be stopped?
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How the Congo River Works
People say that the Congo river is murky brown, but for centuries now, historians have written about the Congo's bloody waters. Fantastic tales of death and near misses have corroborated the Congo's reputation as the heart of darkness.
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How the Nile River Works
It flows south to north and it helped build Ancient Egypt. How does the mighty Nile affect the people and animals that live nearby?
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History of Africa
Fossil evidence indicates that the earliest forms of humans and humanlike creatures originated in Africa.
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Abd-el-Krim,(1880?-1963), a Moorish chieftain, leader of the Riff tribes in Morocco.
See more »African Slave Trade
African Slave Trade, the gathering, transport, and sale of blacks from tropical Africa to other lands.
See more »Ahmed ibn-Muhammed Raisuli
Raisuli, Ahmed ibn-Muhammed (1875?-1925), a Moroccan brigand. As chief of a band in the mountains of Morocco he warred against the country's ineffective government.
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Apartheid, a South African policy of racial separation. The word is Afrikaans for "apartness," and it originated in the 1930's to describe the racial policies of the National Party, which was predominantly supported by Afrikaners (Boers).
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Barbary, a name given to the northern coastal area of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Nile, Battle of the, August 1, 1798, a naval battle between British and French fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Boer War, or South African War (1899–1902), a war between Great Britain and the two Boer republics of Africa, the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.
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Boers, or Afrikaners, South Africans descended predominantly from the early Dutch colonists.
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Corsairs, privateers of the Barbary Coast of North Africa. They were Muslims licensed by their governments to prey on Christian shipping.
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Dido, or Elissa, the traditional founder and first queen of Carthage. She was the sister of Pygmalion, king of Tyre.
See more »Donatism
Donatism, in the early Christian Church, the belief that the sacraments were invalid if they were administered by an unworthy priest.
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Farouk, or Faruk, (1920–1965), king of Egypt, 1936–52. Corrupt and showing little concern for the welfare of his people, Farouk was overthrown by a group of army officers led by Mohammed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser.
See more »French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa, the name of a former federation of French colonies in west-central Africa.
See more »French West Africa
French West Africa, a former federation of French colonies in West Africa. The federation was organized during 1895–1904, with its capital at Dakar.
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