including headings Walking tall, A damp Sahara, Africa's first civilizations, The people of sub-Saharan Africa, Trading kingdoms, west Africa, ...
including headings Colonial period, Independence and Bokassa, Democracy, ...
including headings Rival masterpieces, African terracotta figures, Ife and Benin, African wood carving, Tribal art and cubism, ...
including headings Cape Town, Free burghers and slaves, Cape Dutch and Trekboers, The Cape in the French wars, Slaves and Hottentots, ...
including headings A damp Sahara, Africa's first civilizations, Colonia Julia Carthago, Vandals in Carthage, Byzantine Africa, ...
including headings The people of sub-Saharan Africa, Trading kingdoms, west Africa, Ghana and its successors, Islam in east Africa, Islam in west Africa, ...
The longest surviving tradition of African sculpture is figures in terracotta. Cast metal is the only other material to withstand the continent's termites (fatal to the carved wood of most African sculpture). But the sup...
In Africa, south of the Sahara, wood is the natural material for carving. In the 20th century sculpture in wood is still very much a living tradition. Examples from the 19th century have been preserved in reasonable numb...
The early months of the war also see energetic attacks on the most significant part of Germany's empire, the four territories acquired by Bismarck in the 1880s in the 'scramble for Africa'.Matters are speedily re...
When World War I breaks out, the newly independent dominion of South Africa rallies to the British cause. The only German target in the immediate region is South West Africa. In February 1915 the South African president,...
The early years of the protectorate include several developments of significance in Kenya's subsequent history. One is the decision to encourage settlement in Kenya's temperate highlands by farmers of European origin (th...
Wavell's rapid success in the Egyptian desert and Libya turns out to be merely the first in a series of see-saw reversals of fortune in this region over the next two years. The central figure is Rommel, the brilliant tan...
The expansionist energy of Justinian in Constantinople, and of his great general Belisarius in the field, brings the whole of the North African coast back under Roman rule for one final century. In 533 Belisarius defeats...
Portugal, after initiating the European slave trade in Africa, plays a decreasing role in it over the next few centuries. Similarly the Portuguese, although the first Europeans to establish trading settlements in sub-Sah...
The strong African strain within the modern population of the American continent is entirely the result of the slave trade, but its effect has been very different in the two distinct regions of the continent - Latin Amer...
