Historical Perspective

The Scramble for Africa (1880–1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn’t have happened except for

There are two countries in Africa that are considered by some scholars to never have been colonized: Liberia and Ethiopia. The truth, however, is much

Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that means “separation.” It is the name given to the particular racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the twentieth

Given the slow progress of Romanization of North Africa, it is perhaps surprising how quickly Christianity spread across the top of the continent. From the

Mansa Musa was an important ruler of the golden age of the Malinké kingdom, based on the upper Niger River in Mali, West Africa. He

The most common answer to the question, “Why was Africa called the Dark Continent?” is that Europe did not know much about Africa until the