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4 days ago · This resource documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2020
12 hours ago · Davidson S.H.W. Nicol The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Africa, the second largest continent, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. Africa’s total land area is approximately 11,724,000 square miles (30,365,000 square km), and the continent measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 ...
4 days ago · They were produced between 1830 and the 1960s and display rock art and landscapes, portraits and everyday life, architecture and material culture. Most of the images were produced during expeditions organized by the Frobenius Institute in the first half of the 20th century to Africa, but also to Australia, Indonesia and South America.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2020
1 day ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
2 days ago · Dar Masalit Sultanate (19th century–early 20th century AD) Muhammad Ali dynasty (1914–1951 AD) Emirate of Cyrenaica (1949–1951 AD) Senussi dynasty (1951–1969 AD) preceded by Senusiyya (1837 AD–present) Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957 AD) Domains of the Aksumite Empire and the Adal Sultanate. East Africa
May 20, 2024 · Most records are 20th century; 75% concern east or central Africa. Examples are the diaries of Bernard Litchman, a health officer in Zaire from 1917 to 1961, and Elwood Davis, a physician, in Kenya 1910 to 1949. Collections include those of the Africa Inland Mission and individual missionaries. Has the text of an interview with Paul P. Stough ...
1 day ago · Background Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
