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2 days ago · Contemporary political map of Africa (Includes Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa) Map showing the states, people, and material cultures of the African continent c. 1800 BC, but missing the Kintampo civilisation and Tichitt culture in West Africa.
2 days 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 ...
2 days 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.
Apr 26, 2024 · apartheid, policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- What is apartheid?Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority of South...
- When did apartheid start?Racial segregation had long existed in white minority-governed South Africa, but the practice was extended under the government led by the National...
- How did apartheid end?Under the administration of the South African president F.W. de Klerk, legislation supporting apartheid was repealed in the early 1990s, and a new...
- What is the apartheid era in South African history?The apartheid era in South African history refers to the time that the National Party led the country’s white minority government, from 1948 to 199...
4 days ago · Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. [1] The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial ...
2 days ago · This article covers the history of the area from ancient times through the 20th century. Coverage of the region’s physical and human geography can be found in the article Africa . For discussion of the physical and human geography of individual countries in the region and of their late colonial and postcolonial history, see Djibouti , Eritrea ...
4 days ago · Socialist Countries. While the world has just five truly communist countries, socialist countries (countries whose constitutions include statements about the protection and rule of the working class) are relatively common. Examples include Portugal, Sri Lanka, India, Guinea-Bissau, and Tanzania.
