The decade of the 1960s marked a wave of mass decolonisation. A total of 31 nations globally gained independence from the United Kingdom and France, 75% of whi…

In 525 BC, more than 2500 years ago, the first establishment of a Babylonian fortress was laid around the Nile River. At that time, Egypt was under Saite Dynas…

The modern history of South Africa begins in the 19th century, but the nation's identity formation traces back to the medieval era. The Khoekhoe people, t…

With Côte d'Ivoire in the west, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in the north and Togo in the east, and the great Atlantic Ocean in the south, the count…

The collapse of empires often leads to international powers converging to determine the fate of the region, dividing it into countries and territories that bec…

The Somali coast started populating in the 2nd century AD. Coastal settlements such as  Malao ,  Mundus, Mosylon, Tave, Oponi, Sarapion  etc., existed when eas…

Thirteen lakes of southern Africa bordering ten nations jointly consist of what is famously known as the Great Lakes of Africa. At the time of African explorat…

African countries that we see today, most of them have sprung out of the colonial era after battling against the imperial powers. Hence, the concept of countri…

African coasts had started to get explored and colonised heavily by the Europeans since the 15th century. Although largely Francophile, it was the Portuguese t…