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Ghana Empire

Ghana, Kingdom of, a medieval state located between the Niger and Senegal rivers on the edge of the Sahara, in present-day Mali.

Great Trek

Great Trek, a migration of Boers from Cape Colony into the South African interior during the 1830's and 1840's.

Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I,(Tafari Makonnen; 1892–1975), the last emperor of Ethiopia, reigned 1930–74.

Ismail Pasha

Ismail Pasha, (1830–1895), a ruler of Egypt. He was the grandson of Mehemet Ali, who founded a hereditary dynasty of pashas (governors) under the Ottoman sultan, Egypt's overlord.

Jameson Raid

Jameson Raid, an incident in 1895 preceding the Boer War, the war in South Africa between the British and the Boers.

Mandingo

Mandingo, or Malinké, a Negroid people of West Africa The Mandingos occupy much of the region between the Senegal and Niger rivers.

Moors

Moors, the name given by Europeans to the natives of North Africa, and to those of North African descent who lived in Spain during the Middle Ages.

Nubia

Nubia, a region of Africa in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It extends southward from Aswan, Egypt, to Khartoum.

Ruanda-Urundi

Ruanda-Urundi, a former United Nations trust territory in east-central Africa, just south of the Equator.

Songhai Empire

Songhai, Empire, formerly in the western Sudan in Africa. It flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries in the area of the great bend in the Niger River, in present Niger and Mali.

Tripolitania

Tripolitania, an ancient region in North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It forms the coastal strip of the present division of Tripolitania in Libya.