In Central Africa where the forest is thick, the village chiefs who have sought to impose themselves have had to fight against hostile nature. Prestigious sovereigns with sometimes tragic destinies,...
Read MoreThe black people "KONGO" descend from an almighty god who bears the following names: omakongo okongo akongo ne kongo kalunga... When our ancestors were in search of...
Read MoreLocated at the crossroads of the roads of the Niger Valley, the southern forest regions, the Nile Valley and the Mediterranean, the Chad Basin is the...
Read MoreListed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Great Zimbabwe is the most emblematic of a vast ensemble of more than 200 fortified and related sites. The Empire of Zimbabwe is one of the most extraordinary...
Read MoreWe call Bantu (which means "Humans" in the Kongo language) a group of peoples speaking some four hundred related languages called Bantu. In Africa, they are...
Read MoreThe steep plateau in central Ethiopia enabled a succession of Christian kingdoms to resist for centuries the invasions that rocked the Horn of Africa. The story of...
Read MoreSonghai is said to have been created by secession from the Mali Empire in the 56th century AD under Sonni Suleiman Mar. It was at first a weak kingdom whose...
Read MoreHere are the 12 Tribes of Kama: the kingdom of Kongo, the kingdom of Monomotapa, the kingdom of Kuba, the kingdom of Loango. the kingdom of Luba, the kingdom of Lunda,...
Read MoreIn the first centuries of our era, Wagadu, a small kingdom located between Senegal and Niger, at the sources of gold, and governed by the Cissé clan...
Read MoreThe Nok civilization appeared in Nigeria 1000 years BC and disappeared at the end of the 1st millennium. It was a very advanced civilization in terms of its...
Read MoreThe vassal kingdoms of the Mali Empire were just waiting for an opportunity to take their revenge. What did the little kingdom of Gao do, which gave birth to the greatest empire that...
Read MoreFrom the 12th to the 15th century, in West Africa there extended an empire of which the griots still bring back the legends today: the Empire of Mali. The formation of the Empire of Mali •...
Read MoreAround the Gulf of Guinea, the forest prevented the formation of great empires. But, from the 16th century, the establishment of European trading posts on the coasts...
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