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Africa’s forgotten empires
Africa’s relationship with the wider world continues to be understood largely through colonialism. But before this came centuries of contact…
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Still shrouded in mystery – Algeria’s ancient pyramid tombs
Dating back centuries, Algeria‘s pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era but a dearth of research has left…
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10 Fearless Black Female Warriors Throughout History
Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante (Ashanti) in what is modern Ghana.
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Land in South Africa: dispossession, resistance and restitution
The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
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Western Sahara War
The Western Sahara War was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara…
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Madrid Accords
The Madrid Accords, also called Madrid Agreement or Madrid Pact, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania to end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara, which was…
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Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara, officially the Overseas Province of the Spanish Sahara, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it…
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Belgium reopens museum of African history
For more than a century, Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa has stood as a monument to the worst excesses…
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‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass July 5, 1852 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing…
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Four ways the CIA has meddled in Africa
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a long history of involvement in African affairs, so reports that the 1962…
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Tangier International Zone
The Tangier International Zone (Arabic: منطقة طنجة الدولية Minṭaqat Ṭanja ad-Dawliyya, French: Zone Internationale de Tanger, Spanish: Zona Internacional de Tánger) was a 373-square-kilometre (144 sq mi) international zone centred…
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Spanish protectorate in Morocco
The Spanish protectorate in Morocco was established on 27 November 1912 by a treaty between France and Spain that converted the Spanish sphere of…
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French protectorate in Morocco
The French protectorate in Morocco (French: Protectorat français au Maroc; Arabic: حماية فرنسا في المغرب Ḥimāyat Faransā fi-l-Maḡrib) was established by the Treaty of Fez. It existed…
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Saadi dynasty
The Saadi dynasty or Saadian dynasty (Arabic: السعديون as-saʿadiūn) was an Arab Moroccan dynasty, which ruled Morocco from 1549 to 1659. From 1509 to 1549, they had ruled only in…
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Marinid dynasty
The Marinid dynasty (Berber: Imrinen; Arabic: المرينيون Marīniyūn) or Banu abd al-Haqq was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Zenata Berber descent that ruled Morocco from the 13th to the 15th century. In 1244, the Marinid…
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