Who are the Yoruba People? By the seventeenth century, the Yoruba People had already established themselves as a distinct people…
Great Zimbabwe’s Rise To Power If you’re looking for the largest archaeological site in Africa, look no farther than the…
Kongo Kingdom Kongo Kingdom. When King Afonso I (1509–1542) died at the age of almost eighty, he left a multigenerational…
Mutapa State The Mutapa State was founded in the fifteenth century, following the sudden fall of Great Zimbabwe. It was…
Ancient Egypt Throughout their roughly 3,000-year dynasty history, the ancient Egyptians considered their country “Two Lands,” the union of which…
Empire of Ghana Empire of Ghana, a former African monarchy, was established in the western savanna of the continent. The…
The Kerma culture’s origins can be traced to the late Predynastic period in Upper Nubia, at least north of the…