MC_A Concise History of Africa

A Concise History of Africa

King Leopold II, 10, 10 King Menes, 28

T Tanzania, 44–45 , 55. See also Serengeti National Park Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria, 24 Temple of Philae, Aswan, Egypt, 29 Tertullian, 19

O Omugabe people, 50 Ottoman Empire, 19 P Pan-Africanism, 74, 75

King’s College, Uganda, 69 Kisoro District, Uganda, 67 Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Accra, Ghana, 74 L La Francophonie , 62–63 Lake Nasser, 29–30 Lake Victoria, 48 languages, 28, 36, 42, 46, 62–63, 65 Larabanga Mosque, Larabanga, Ghana, 33

Park, Mungo, 17 Pasha, Ismail, 30 Pasha, Tawfik, 30 Pellew, Edward, 21 pieds-noirs , 56–57 pirates and pirating, 21–22, 21 Portuguese colonialism, 37, 38, 39, 43 pre-colonial history: Inland Africa, 46; North Africa, 19–20, 24–25, 28–29; overview of, 12– 17, 72; Southern Africa, 52–53; West Africa, 32–36 Q Queen Victoria, 68, 69 R railways. See Uganda Railway “Rainbow Nation,” 76, 77 Rexroth, Kenneth, 76 Rhodes, Cecil John, 64, 65, 65 S Sahara Desert, 13, 18, 19 , 24–25, 24 , 26–27 Sahel, 18, 24, 32–33 salt supplies, 25 schools. See education Scramble for Africa, 11, 17, 65 Selassie, Haile, 31 Senegal, 32, 63 , 69 Senghor, Léopold, 74 Serengeti National Park, 8–9 Shali Fortress, Egypt, 25 ships, 64 slave trade, 38, 44, 51. See also Arab slave trade; Atlantic slave trade; European slave trade Songhai Empire, 34–35 Soninke people, 32, 33 South Africa, 12, 17, 65 , 70, 70–71 , 77 Southern Africa, 52–55 Soyinka, Kayode, 77 Speke, John, 17 stamps, 38 Stanley, Henry, 17 St. Augustine, 19 Stone Town, Zanzibar, 44–45 Sudan, 18, 28, 29, 30 Suez Canal, 30, 31 , 64, 64 Sultan of Oman, 43 Sultan of Zanzibar, 44 superiority attitude. See European superiority attitude Swahili civilization, 42 Swazi nation, 53, 55

Timbuktu, Mali, 34, 35 Touré, Mohammed, 35 trade. See gold trade; slave trade trade centers, 35, 37, 42

trade routes: East Africa, 42; Inland Africa, 50; oases and, 13; West Africa, 16, 32, 33, 35, 39. See also slave trade; Suez Canal traditions, invention of, 70, 73 tribes, 73. See also specific people ; specific States Tripoli. See Libya Tuareg people, 18, 19 Tunisia, 13, 16 , 17 , 58, 58 , 62. See also Maghreb Tutu, Desmond, 76 , 77 U Uganda, 47, 49, 51, 68, 69

Leakey, Meave, 12 Liberia, 40, 66, 66

Libya, 13, 17. See also Maghreb Livingstone, David, 17, 44, 44 M Maghreb, 18–20, 58 Mali, 32, 35 Mali Empire, 16, 34 Mandela, Nelson, 77, 77 Mandinka people, 34 mankind, origin of, 12–17 al-Mansur, Ahmad, 35 maps, 2 , 28 Mariam, Mengistu Haile, 31 Marrakech, Morocco, 16 , 60–61 Masai people, 11 , 47, 47 Meknes, Morocco, 23

Ugandan farmland, 46 , 67 , 68 Uganda Railway, 51, 51 , 66, 68 United States presence, 23–24 V Volubilis, Morocco, 13 von Bismarck, Otto, 10, 10 Voortrekker Monument bas-relief, 54 W wadis, 25 Weenen Massacre, 54–55, 55 West Africa, 20, 32–41 White, Tim, 12 White Highlands, 66, 68 Wilberforce, William, 40, 40 Y Yoruba States, 36–37 Z Zambezi River, 52 Zanzibar, Tanzania, 44–45 zebras, 49 Zimbabwe, 52, 55 Zulu, Shaki, 55, 70 Zulu nation, 46, 47, 53, 55, 55

Mesurado River, 66 metalworking, 47, 49

militarism: Almoravid people and, 33; British colonialism and, 69; French colonialism and, 69; independence and, 75; Mariam and, 30; Ugandan farmland, 46 ; Zulu and, 55. See also jihads Mogadishu, Somalia, 42 Morocco: Almoravid people, 33; cities of, 13 , 23 , 59 , 60–61 ; Djemaa el Fna square, Marrakech,, 16 ; independence of, 62. See also Maghreb Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, 14–15 Mount Kilimanjaro, 49 mud houses, 34 Musa, Mansa, 34 Mutesa, Edward, 69 myths, 38 N Nairobi to Mombasa train, 51 Nguni people, 53 Nigeria, 35–37 Nigerian Hausa woman, 36 Nile River area and tributaries, 28–31, 28 , 29 Nkrumah, Kwame, 74, 75. See also Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Accra, Ghana North Africa, 13, 17, 18–31 Nubia, 29

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