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3 days ago · The History of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed.
1 day ago · The history of West Africa can be divided into five major periods: first, its prehistory, in which the first human settlers arrived, developed agriculture, and made contact with peoples to the north; the second, the Iron Age empires that consolidated both intra-Africa, and extra-Africa trade, and developed centralized states; third, major ...
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2 days ago · Pop. (2014 est.) 375,477,000. Western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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15 hours ago · Mar. 25, 2024, 8:31 PM ET (AP) Senegal’s little-known opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is named the next president. Show More. Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia ), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth.
2 days ago · Slavery for domestic and court purposes was widespread throughout Africa. Plantation slavery also occurred, primarily on the eastern coast of Africa and in parts of West Africa. The importance of domestic plantation slavery increased during the 19th century, due to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.
3 days ago · African History from the 1960s to the Present #4 – Exploring Africa. Aswan High Dam, 1970. Egypt, with the help of the USSR, built and began operation of the Aswan High Dam. For the first time in history, humans could control the Nile River. Countries.
3 days ago · To geographer Judith Carney, experienced from her research among rice cultivators in The Gambia and Senegal, this site itself is a text from which we can see history being made. 4 Carney looks out from the bank and sees the same, distinctive forms of rice cultivation and water management in the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia as ...