History of Africa - Wikipedia
WEBFrom 1870 to 1914, driven by the great force and voracity of the Second Industrial Revolution, European colonisation of Africa developed rapidly from one-tenth of the continent being under European imperial control to over nine-tenths in the Scramble for Africa, with the major European powers partitioning the continent in the 1884 Berlin …
Africa | History, People, Countries, Regions, Map, & Facts
WEB1 day ago · Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. The continent is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and on the south by the mingling waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
History of Africa - New World Encyclopedia
WEBIn 1454 and 1483, the Pope ceded much of Africa to the emerging maritime colonial powers, Spain and Portugal. In the nineteenth century, the northern European colonial powers divided the rest of Africa among themselves.
General History of Africa - UNESCO
WEBThe General History of Africa (GHA) is a pioneering corpus, unparalleled in its ambition to cover the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges faced by Africans and their Diasporas in the world.
Africa historical overview: from the 1600s to the present
WEBAfrican independence. Independence movements in Africa began with the liberation of Ghana in 1957 and ended with the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. The postcolonial period has been challenging, as many countries struggle to regain stability in the aftermath of colonialism.
Peoples, geography, and history of Africa | Britannica
WEBAfrica’s first great historical kingdom, Egypt, arose along the Nile c. 3000 bce and flourished for nearly 3,000 years. The Phoenicians established a colony at Carthage and controlled the western Mediterranean for nearly 600 years.
Africa - Wikipedia
WEBThe history of Africa is long, complex, and varied, and has often been under-appreciated by the global historical community. [18] Africa, particularly Eastern Africa, is widely accepted to be the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade, also known as …