Short History of Africa

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A Short History of Africa Chapter 1. The Races of Africa. .................................................. 3 Chapter 2. The Kushites : Meroe : Nubia. .................................... 5 Chapter 3. North Africa until the 7th Century A.D. : Carthage : Rome : The Vandals : Byzantium......................................... 6 Chapter 4. North Africa : The Arabs. ........................................... 9 Chapter 5. The Early Kingdoms of the Western and Central Sudan.11 Chapter 6. Eastern and Central Africa : The Swahili. ................... 13 Chapter 7. The West African Forest Kingdoms. ........................... 15 Chapter 9. Portuguese Exploration and Colonisation. ................... 18 Chapter 10. The Slave Trade. .................................................... 20 Chapter 12. Africa in the Early Years of the 19th Century. ............. 22 Chapter 12. European Exploration 1770-1870. ............................. 25 Chapter 13. French and British Activities in Africa from the 1820s to 1880s. .................................................................. 27 Chapter 14. The "Scramble for Africa"......................................... 30 Chapter 15. The Colonial Period. ................................................ 34 Chapter 16. The Africans become Independent. ........................... 36 Chapter 18. After Independence: North Africa.............................. 42 Chapter 19.After Independence: The Countries of the Sudan......... 45 Chapter 20. After Independence - West Africa.............................. 48 Chapter 22. After Independence: Central Africa. .......................... 59 Chapter 23.After Independence: Southern Central Africa. ............. 64 Chapter 24. Southern Africa since 1965. ..................................... 67 Map: Ancient Africa ........................................................ 71 Map: 15th to 19th Centuries
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