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Early Pre-History
Later Pre-History and Ancient History
Iron Age to end of 18th Century: Central & Southern Africa
Iron Age to end of 18th Century: Eastern & North-Central Africa
Iron Age to End of 18th Century: North Africa
Iron Age to End of 18th Century: Western Africa
Beginnings of European Imperialism
The "Scramble"
Era of Colonialism
19th & 20th Centuries: Histories of Modern States
Postcolonial Africa
Modern Cities of Historical Importance
Historiographical Surveys
Outlines of Regional History
Pan-African/Comparative Topics and Debates



Early Pre-History

Climate and Vegetational Change
Humankind: Hominids, Early: Origins of
Olduwan and Acheulian: Early Stone Age
Permanent Settlement, Early
Rock Art: Eastern Africa
Rock Art, Saharan
Rock Art: Southern Africa
Rock Art: Western and Central Africa
Stone Age (Later): Central and Southern Africa
Stone Age (Later): Eastern Africa
Stone Age (Later): Nile Valley
Stone Age (Later): Sahara and North Africa
Stone Age (Later): Western Africa
Stone Age, Middle: Cultures

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Later Pre-History and Ancient History

Akhenaten
Aksum, Kingdom of
Alexandria and Early Christianity: Egypt
Augustine, Catholic Church: North Africa
Berbers: Ancient North Africa
Byzantine Africa, 533-710
Carthage
Crop Cultivation: the Evidence
Domestication, Plant and Animal, History of
Donatist Church: North Africa
Egypt, Ancient, and Africa
Egypt, Ancient: Agriculture
Egypt, Ancient: Architecture
Egypt, Ancient: Chronology
Egypt, Ancient: Economy: Redistributive: Palace, Temple
Egypt, Ancient: Funeral Practices and Mummification
Egypt, Ancient: Hieroglyphics and Origins of Alphabet
Egypt, Ancient: Literacy
Egypt, Ancient: Middle Kingdom: Historical Outline
Egypt, Ancient: New Kingdom and the Colonization of Nubia
Egypt, Ancient: Old Kingdom and its Contacts to the South: Historical Outline
Egypt, Ancient: Pre-dynastic Egypt and Nubia: Historical Outline
Egypt, Ancient: Ptolemaic Dynasty: Historical Outline
Egypt, Ancient: Religion
Egypt, Ancient: Roman Conquest and Occupation: Historical Outline
Egypt, Ancient: Social Organization
Egypt, Ancient: Unification of Upper and Lower: Historical Outline
Egyptology, from Herodotus to 20th Century
Farming: Stone Age Farmers of the Savannah
Farming: Tropical Forest Zones
Garamantes: Early trans-Saharan Trade
Herding, Farming, Origins of: Sahara and Nile Valley
Hunting, Foraging
Igbo-Ukwo
Iron Age (Early): Farming, Eastern Africa
Iron Age (Early): Farming, Equatorial Africa
Iron Age (Early): Herding, Farming, Southern Africa
Iron Age and Neolithic: West Africa
Kerma and Egyptian Nubia
Kush
Meroe: Meroitic Culture and Economy
Metalworking: Origins of Iron-Working
Monophysitism, Coptic Church, 379-640
Napata and Meroe
Neolithic North Africa
Neolithic, Pastoral: Eastern Africa
Nok Culture: Terracotta, Iron
North Africa, Ancient: Urbanization
North Africa: Roman Occupation, Empire
Punt and Its Neighbors
Ramses II
Soba and Dongola
Urbanization and Site Hierarchy: West Africa: Savannah and Sahel
Vandals: North Africa

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Iron Age to end of 18th Century: Central & Southern Africa

Angola, 18th Century
Cape Colony: Khoi-Dutch Wars
Cape Colony: Origins, Settlement, Trade
Cape Colony: Slavery
Great Zimbabwe: Colonial Historiography
Great Zimbabwe: Origins and Rise
Ingombe Ilede
Iron Age (Later): Central Africa
Iron Age (Later): Central Africa: Luangwa Tradition
Iron Age (Later): Central Africa: Peoples, Forest
Iron Age (Later): Central Africa: Upemba Basin
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Characteristics and Origins, South of Zambezi
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Ethnicity, Language, Identity
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Highveld, Emergence of States on
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Leopard's Kopje, Bambandyanalo and Mapungubwe
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Peoples
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Southeastern Lowveld, Emergence of States on
Iron Age (Later): Southern Africa: Toutswemogala, Cattle and Political Power
Kasai and Kuba: Chiefdoms and Kingdom
Kazembe's Eastern Lunda
Kongo Kingdom, 1543-68
Kongo Kingdom: Afonso I, Christianity and Kingship
Kongo Kingdom: Jaga Invasion to 1665
Kongo Kingdom: 17th and 18th Centuries
Kongo, Teke (Tio) and Loango: History to 1483
Loango: Slave Trade
Luba: Origins and Growth
Luba: 17th and 18th Centuries
Lunda: Kingdoms, 17th and 18th Centuries
Lunda: Mwaant Yaav (Mwata Yamvo) and Origins
Lunda: Titles
Manyika of Eastern Zimbabwe
Maravi: Kalonga Masula: Empire, Trade
Maravi: Phiri Clan, Lundu and Undi Dynasties
Maravi: Zimba "Invasions"
Mutapa State, 1450-1884
Ndongo, Kingdom of
Njinga Mbande
Nyanga Hills
Ovimbundu States
Rwanda: to 1800
Sena, Tete, Portuguese and Prazos
Torwa, Changamire Dombo and the Rovzi

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Iron Age to end of 18th Century: Eastern & North-Central Africa

Adal: Ibrahim, Ahmad ibn, Conflict with Ethiopia, 1526-1543
Bagirmi, Wadai and Darfur
Bantu Cultivators: Kenyan Highlands
Bourbon, Ile de France, Seychelles: 18th century
Buganda to the 19th Century
Bunyoro
Burundi to c. 1800
Central Africa, Northern: Arab Penetration, Rise of Cavalry States
Central Africa, Northern: Central Sudanic Peoples
Central Africa, Northern: Chadic Peoples
Central Africa, Northern: Islam, Pilgrimage
Central Africa, Northern: Slave Raiding
Comoros: Before 1800
Cushites: Northeastern Africa: Stone Age Origins to Iron Age
Eastern Savannah, Political Authority in
Ethiopia, c.1550-c.1700
Ethiopia: Aksumite Inheritance, c.850-1150
Ethiopia: Eighteenth Century
Ethiopia: Muslim States, Awash Valley: Shoa, Ifat, Fatagar, Hadya, Dawaro, Adal, 9th to 16th Centuries
Ethiopia, Portuguese and, 16th-17th centuries
Ethiopia: Shoan Plateau,15th and 16th Centuries
Ethiopia: Solomonid Dynasty, 1270-c.1550
Ethiopia: Zagwe Dynasty, 1150-1270
Great Lakes Region: Cattle Herding
Great Lakes Region: Karagwe, Nkore and Buhaya
Great Lakes Region: Kitara and the Chwezi Dynasty
Great Lakes Region: Ntusi, Kibiro and Bigo
Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Cattle, Wealth, Power
Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Labor, Gender, Production
Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Salt
Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Societies, Evolution of
Iron Age (Later): East Africa: Trade
Islam: Eastern Africa
Lalibela and Ethiopian Christianity
Madagascar: Malagasy Kingdoms, Evolution of
Madagascar: Prehistory and Development to c. 1500
Mascerene Islands Prior to the French
Massawa, Ethiopia and the Ottoman Empire
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Eastern Nilotes: Ateker (Karimojong)
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Maasai
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Origins, Pastoralism, Migration
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Southern Nilotes: Kalenjin, Dadog, Pokot
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Western Nilotes: Luo
Nilotes, Eastern Africa: Western Nilotes: Shilluk, Nuer, Dinka, Anyuak
Oromo: Migration and Expansion: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Oromo: Origins, Social and Economic Organization
Sirikwa and Engaruka: Dairy Farming, Irrigation
Slavery: East Africa: 18th Century
Slavery, Plantation: East Africa and the Islands
Somalia: Pastoralism, Islam, Commerce, Expansion: To 1800
Swahili: Azania to 1498
Swahili: Mombasa, Fort Jesus, the Portuguese, 1589-1698
Swahili, Portuguese and: 1498-1589
Upare, Usambara, Kilimanjaro

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Iron Age to End of 18th Century: North Africa

'Abd Allah ibn Yasin: Almoravid: Sahara
'Abd al-Mu'min: Almohad Empire, 1140-1269
Abu Madian, al-Shadhili and the Spread of Sufism in the Maghrib
Aghlabid Amirate of Ifriqiya (800-909)
Arab Bedouin: Banu Hilal, Banu Sulaym, Banu Ma'qil (11th to 15th centuries)
Barbary Corsairs and the Ottoman Provinces: Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli in the 17th Century
Egypt and Africa (1000-1500)
Egypt: Arab Conquest
Egypt: Arab Empire (640-850)
Egypt: Ayyubid Dynasty, 1169-1250
Egypt: Fatimid Caliphate
Egypt: Fatimids, Later: 1073-1171
Egypt: Fatimids, Later: Army and Administration
Egypt: Fatimids, Later: World Trade
Egypt: Mamluk Dynasty (1250-1517): Army and Iqta' System
Egypt: Mamluk Dynasty (1250-1517): Baybars, Qalawun, Mongols, 1250-1300
Egypt: Mamluk Dynasty (1250-1517): Literature
Egypt: Mamluk Dynasty (1250-1517): Plague
Egypt: Ottoman, 1517-1798: Historical Outline
Egypt: Ottoman, 1517-1798: Mamluk Beylicate (c.1600-1798)
Egypt: Ottoman, 1517-1798: Napoleon and the French in Egypt (1798-1801)
Egypt: Ottoman, 1517-1798: Nubia, Red Sea
Egypt: Ottoman, 1517-1798: Trade with Africa
Egypt: Tulunids and Ikhshidids, 850-969
Fatimid Empire: Maghrib, 910-1057
Funj Sultanate, 16th to 18th Centuries
Ibn Khaldun: Civilization of the Maghrib
Ibn Khaldun: History of the Berbers
Ibn Tumart, Almohad Community and
Maghrib: Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli under the Deys Husaynids and Karamanlis in the 18th century
Maghrib: Arab Conquest of, 650-715
Maghrib: European Expansion into, 1250-1550
Maghrib: Marinids, Ziyanids and Hafsids, 1235-1359
Maghrib: Muslim Brotherhoods
Maghrib: Ottoman Conquest of Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis
Marrakesh
Morocco: Ahmad al-Mansur and Invasion of Songhay
Morocco: Maraboutic Crisis, Founding of the 'Alawite Dynasty
Morocco: Mawlay Isma'il and Empire of
Morocco: Sa'adians
Morocco: Sidi Muhammad and Foundations of Essawira
Nobadia, Makurra and 'Alwa
Nubia: Banu Kanz, Juhayna, Arabization of the Nilotic Sudan
Nubia: Relations with Egypt (7th to 14th centuries)
Qayrawan
Salah al-Din/Saladin
Sahara: Peoples of the Desert
Sahara: Salt: Production, Trade
Sahara: Trans-Saharan Trade
Sijilmasa, Zawila: trans-Saharan Trade
Yusuf ibn Tashfin: Almoravid Empire: Maghrib: 1070-1147

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Iron Age to End of 18th Century: Western Africa

Africanus, Leo
Air, Sultanate of
Aja-Speaking Peoples: Aja, Fon, Ewe, 17th and 18th Centuries
Aja-Speaking Peoples: Dahomey, Rise of, 17th Century
Akan and Asante: Farmers, Traders, Emergence of Akan States
Akan States: Bono, Dankyira, Wassa, Akyem, Akwamu, Fante, 15th to 17th Centuries
Akan States: 18th Century
Allada and Slave Trade
Asante Kingdom: Osei Tutu and Founding of
Benin Empire: Oba Ewuare, Trade with the Portuguese
Benin Empire: Origins and Growth of City State
Benue Valley Peoples: Jukun and Kwarafa
Borno (Bornu), Sultanate of: Mai Idris Aloma
Borno (Bornu), Sultanate of: Origins and Rise, 15th Century
Borno (Bornu), Sultanate of: Saifawa Dynasty: Horses, Slaves, Warfare
Borno (Bornu), Sultanate of, 17th and 18th Centuries
Carvajal, Luis del Mármól
Dahomey: 18th Century
Equiano, Olaudah
Forest Peoples: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast: History of to 1800
Fulbe/Fulani/Peul: Cattle Pastoralism, Migration, 17th and 18th Centuries
Fulbe/Fulani/Peul: Origins
Futa Jalon to 1800
Futa Toro
Futa Toro: 19th Century
Ghana, Empire: Historiography of Origins
Ghana, Empire: History of
Gold: Akan Goldfields: 1400 to 1800
Gold: Production and Trade: West Africa
Hausa Polities: Origins, Rise
Hausa Polities: Urbanism, Industry and Commerce
Hausa Polities: Warfare, Nineteenth Century
Ibn Battuta, Mali Empire and
Ife, Oyo, Yoruba, Ancient: Kingship and Art
Igbo and Igala
Juula/Dyula
Kanem: Decline, Merge with Borno (c.1400)
Kanem: Origins and Growth (6th to 10th centuries)
Kanem: Slavery and trans-Saharan Trade
Literacy and Indigenous Scripts: Precolonial West Africa
al-Maghili
Mai Dunama Dibalami
Mali Empire: Decline, 15th Century
Mali Empire: Economy
Mali Empire, Sundiata and Origins of
Mandinka States of the Gambia
Mane: Migrations, Sixteenth Century, History of
Mansa Musa, Mali Empire and
Massassi and the Kaarta State
Niger Delta and its Hinterland: History to 16th century
Niger Delta and its Hinterland: Peoples and States to 1800
Portugal: Exploration and Trade in the Fifteenth Century
Religion: Indigenous Beliefs: sub-Saharan Africa
Religion: Islam, Growth of: Western Africa
Rumfa, Muhammad
São Tomé and Principe to 1800
Slavery: Trans-Saharan Trade
Slavery in African Society
Sanhaja
Segu: Origins and Growth of a Bamana Kingdom
Slavery, Atlantic Basin in the Era of
Slavery: Atlantic Trade: Abolition: Philanthropy or Economics?
Slavery: Atlantic Trade: Effects in Africa and the Americas
Slavery: Atlantic Trade: Opposition, African
Slavery: Atlantic Trade: Trans-Atlantic Passage
Slavery: Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean
Songhay Empire, Gao and Origins of
Songhay Empire: Moroccan Invasion, 1591
Songhay Empire: Sonni Ali and the Founding of Empire
Songhay Empire: Ture, Muhammad and the Askiya dynasty
Timbuktu
Tuareg: Takedda and trans-Saharan trade
Tuareg: Traders, Raiders and the empires of Mali and Songhay
Wolof and Jolof Empire
Yoruba States (Other Than Ife and Oyo)
Yoruba States: Oyo
Yoruba-Speaking Peoples

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Beginnings of European Imperialism

Anti-Slavery Movement
Anti-Slavery Squadron, Decline of Export Slave Trade, 19th Century
Europe: Industrialization and Imperialism
Europe: Explorers, Adventurers, Traders
Legitimate Commerce, Export Slave Trade, 19th century
Livingstone, David
Medical Factor in Christian Conversion
Missionary Enterprise: Pre-Colonial
Resettlement of Re-Captives: Freetown, Libreville, Liberia, Freretown, Zanzibar
Slave Trade: Arms, Ivory, and (East and Central Africa)
Slave Trade: Arms, Ivory, and (Southern Africa)
Slavery, Abolition of: East and West Africa

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The "Scramble"

Berlin West Africa Conference, 1884-1885
Boundaries, Colonial
Brussels Conference and Act, 1890
Collaboration as Resistance
Egypt, North Africa: Scramble
Johnston, Harry H.
Military: Colonialism, Conquest, Resistance
Resistance to Colonialism

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Era of Colonialism

Alcohol: Popular Culture, Colonial Control
Armies, Colonial: Africans in
Asians: East Africa
Clothing and cultural change
Colonial Administrations, Africans in
Colonial European Administrations: Comparative Survey
Colonial Federations: British Central Africa
Colonial Federations: French Equatorial Africa
Colonial Federations: French West Africa
Colonial Imports vs. Indigenous Crafts
Colonialism: Ideology of Empire: Supremacist, Paternalist
Colonialism: Impact on African societies
Colonialism, Overthrow of: Nationalism and Anti-Colonialism
Colonialism, Overthrow of: Northern Africa
Colonialism, Overthrow of: Sub-Saharan Africa
Colonialism, Overthrow of: 30 Years War for Southern African Liberation
Colonialism, Overthrow of: Women and the Nationalist Struggle
Concessionary Companies
Currencies and Banking
Diaspora: Colonial Era
Du Bois, W.E.B. and Pan-Africanism
Education in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa
Education: French West Africa
Education: North Africa (Colonial and Postcolonial)
Ethnicity, Tribalism: Colonial Experience
Fonds d'Investment pour le Développement Economique et Social (FIDES, 1946)
Hailey: An African Survey
Hunting, Colonial Era
Journalism, African: Colonial Era
Labor: Decline in Traditional Forms of Exploitation
Labor, Migrant
Land and "Reserves" in Colonial Africa
Language, Colonial State and
Literacy: Vehicle for Cultural Change
Literature, Western: Africa in
Mandates: League of Nations and United Nations
Martial Races
Media as Propaganda
Mining
Peasant Production, Colonial: Cash Crops and Transport
Peasant Production: Food, Markets: West Africa
Phelps-Stokes Commission
Plantations and Labor, Colonial
Policing, Colonial
Professions, Africans in: Colonial
Railways
Religion, Colonial Africa: Conversion to World Religions
Religion, Colonial Africa: Indigenous Religion
Religion, Colonial Africa: Independent, Millenarian/Syncretic Churches
Religion, Colonial Africa: Islamic Orders and Movements
Religion, Colonial Africa: Missionaries
Religion, Colonial Africa: Prophetic Movements
Religion, Colonial Africa: Religious Responses to Colonial Rule
Rinderpest and Smallpox: East and Southern Africa
Slavery, Colonial Rule and
Soldiers, African: Overseas
Taxation
Trades Unionism and Nationalism
Transport Infrastructure
Urbanization: Colonial Context
Wallace-Johnson, I.T.A. and Radical Politics: West Africa: 1930s
White Settler Factor: Economic And Political
World War I: North and Saharan Africa
World War I: Survey
World War II: French West Africa, Equatorial Africa
World War II: North Africa
World War II: Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Impact

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19th & 20th Centuries: Histories of Modern States

'Abd al-Qadir
Abouh, Muhammad
Achebe, Chinua
Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism, 19th Century
Ahidjo, Ahmadou
Algeria: Algiers and its Capture, 1815-1830
Algeria: Arabism and Islamism
Algeria: Ben Bella, Boumédienne, era of, 1960s and 1970s
Algeria: Bendjedid and Elections, 1978-1990
Algeria, Colonial: Islamic Ideas and Movements in
Algeria: Conquest and Resistance, 1831-1879
Algeria: European Population, 1830-1954
Algeria: Government and Administration, 1830-1914
Algeria: International Relations, 1962-Present
Algeria: Islamic Salvation Front, Military Rule, Civil War, 1990s
Algeria: Muslim Population, 1871-1954
Algeria: Nationalism and Reform, 1911-1954
Algeria: War of Independence, 1954-1962
Anglo-Zulu War, 1879-1887
Angola: Ambaquista, Imbangala and Long-Distance trade
Angola: Civil War: Impact of, Economic and Social
Angola: Chokwe, Ovimbundu, 19th Century
Angola: Cold War Politics, Civil War, 1975-1994
Angola: Independence and Civil War, 1974-1976
Angola: MPLA, FNLA, UNITA, War of Liberation, 1961-1974
Angola: New Colonial Period: Christianity, Missionaries, Independent Churches
Angola: New Colonial Period: White Immigration, Mestiços, Assimilated Africans
Angola: Peace Betrayed, 1994 to the Present
Angola: Revolts, 1961
Angola: Scramble
Angola: Slave Trade, Abolition of
Awolowo, Obafemi
Azikiwe, Nnamdi
Balewa, Alhaji Sir Abubakar
Banda, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu
Bello, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu
Benin Kingdom: British Conquest, 1897
Benin Kingdom: 19th Century
Benin (Republic of): Colonial Period
Benin (Republic of): Democratization: National Conference and, 1990s
Benin (Republic of): Independence, Coup, Politics
Benin (Republic of): Kérékou, Mathieu
Bhambatha Rebellion, 1906
Blyden, E.W.
Boer Expansion: Interior of South Africa
Boganda, Barthélemy
Botswana: Bechuanaland Protectorate, Founding of: 1885-1899
Botswana (Bechuanaland Protectorate): Colonial Period
Botswana: Independence: Economic Development, Politics
Botswana: Missionaries, 19th Century
Botswana: 19th Century: Pre-Colonial
British Togoland
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta): Colonial Period
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta): 19th Century
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta): Independence to the Present
Burundi: Colonial Period: German and Belgian
Burundi: Independence to 1988
Burundi: 1988 to Present
Burundi: 19th Century
Buthelezi and Inkatha Freedom Party
Cameroon: Colonial Period: British and French Rule
Cameroon: Colonial Period: German rule (Kamerun)
Cameroon: Independence to the Present
Cameroon: 19th Century
Cameroon: Rebellion, Independence, Unification, 1960-1961
Cape Colony: British Occupation, 1806-1872
Cape Liberalism, 19th Century
Cape Verde, History of
Casely Hayford, J.E.
Central African Republic: Colonial Period: Oubangui-Chari
Central African Republic: Colonial Period: Occupation, Resistance, Baya Revolt, 1928
Central African Republic: Nationalism, Independence
Central African Republic: 1980s and 1990s
Central African Republic: 19th Century: Gbaya, Banda and Azande
Cetshwayo
Chad: Colonial Period: French Rule
Chad: Independence to the Present
Chad: Libya, Aouzou Strip, Civil War
Chad: 19th Century: Kanem/Borno (Bornu) and Wadai
Comoros/ Mayotte: Independence to the Present
Comoros / Mayotte: 19th Century to 1975
Congo (Brazzaville), Republic of: Colonial Period: Moyen-Congo
Congo (Brazzaville), Republic of: De Brazza and French Colonization
Congo (Brazzaville), Republic of: Independence, Revolution, 1958-1979
Congo (Brazzaville), Republic of: Liberalization, Rebellion, 1980s and 1990s
Congo (Brazzaville), Republic of: Nineteenth Century: Pre-Colonial
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Belgian Congo: Administration and Society, 1908-60
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Belgian Congo: Colonial Economy, 1908-1960
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Civil War, 1960-1965
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Congo Free State, 1885-1908
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Evolués, Politics, Independence
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Mineral Factor
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Mobutu, Zaïre, Mobutuism
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: National Conference and politics of opposition, 1990-1996
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: 19th Century: Pre-Colonial
Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of/ Zaire: Post-Mobutu Era
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): Colonial Period: Administration and Economy
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): Colonization and Resistance
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): Independence to the Present
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): PDCI (Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire)
Crowther, Reverend Samuel Ajayi and the Niger Mission
Delta States, 19th Century
Diagne, Guèye and Politics of Senegal, 1920s and 1930s
Difaqane on the Highveld
Diop, Cheikh Anta
Diouf, Abdou
Djibouti: 19th Century to the Present: survey
Dube, John Langalibalele
Egypt: Cromer Administration, 1883-1907: irrigation, agriculture and industry
Egypt: Monarchy and Parliament, 1922-1939
Egypt: Muhammad Ali, 1805-1849: Imperial Expansion
Egypt: Muhammad Ali, 1805-1849: State and Economy
Egypt: Nasser: Foreign Policy: Suez Canal Crisis to Six Day War, 1952-1970
Egypt: Nasser: High Dam, Economic Development, 1952-1970
Egypt: Nationalism, World War I and the Wafd, 1882-1922
Egypt: Mubarak, Since 1981: Agriculture, Industry
Egypt: Mubarak, Since 1981: Politics
Egypt: Printing, Broadcasting
Egypt: Sadat, Nationalism, 1970-1981
Egypt: Salafiyya, Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt: Urabi Pasha and British occupation, 1879-82
Egypt, World War II and
Egypt, 1945-1952
Equatorial Guinea: Colonial Period, 19th Century
Equatorial Guinea: Independence to the Present
Eritrea: 1941 to the present
Eritrea: Ottoman Province to Italian Colony
Ethiopia: Civil war and Liberation (to 1993)
Ethiopia: Early Nineteenth Century
Ethiopia: Famine, Revolution, Mengistu Dictatorship, 1974-1991
Ethiopia: Italian Invasion and Occupation: 1935-1940
Ethiopia: Johannes IV, Era of, (1868-89)
Ethiopia: Land, Agriculture, Politics 1941-1974
Ethiopia: Menelik II, Era of
Ethiopia: 1991 to the Present
Ethiopia: Tewodros II, Era of
Ethiopianism and the Independent Church Movement
Futa Jalon: 19th Century
Gabon: Bongo, Omar and the One-Party State, 1967 to the Present
Gabon: Colonial Period: Administration, Labor, Economy
Gabon: Colonial Period: Social Transformation
Gabon: Decolonization and the Politics of Independence, 1945-1967
Gabon: 19th Century: Pre-colonial
Gambia, The: Independence to the Present
Gambia, The: 19th Century to Independence
Gambia, The: Relations with Senegal
Garang, John, and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Party (SPLA)
Gender and Migration: Southern Africa
Ghana (Republic of): 1800-74
Ghana, Republic of: Achaempong Regime to Third Republic, 1972-81
Ghana (Republic of): Colonization, Resistance, 1875-1901
Ghana, Republic of: Coups d'étât, Second Republic, 1966-1972
Ghana (Republic of) (Gold Coast): Colonial Period: Administration
Ghana (Republic of) (Gold Coast): Colonial Period: Economy
Ghana (Republic of) (Gold Coast): Guggisberg Administration, 1919-1927
Ghana (Republic of): Nationalism, Independence
Ghana, Republic of: Revolution and Fourth Republic, 1981 to Present
Ghana, Republic of: Social and Economic Development: First Republic
Gold: Mining Industry of Ghana: 1800 to the Present
Gore-Browne, Stewart
Guinea: 1984 to the Present
Guinea: Colonial Period
Guinea: Decolonization, Independence
Guinea: Touré, Ahmed Sekou, Era of
Guinea-Bissau: Cabral, Amílcar, PAICG, Independence, 1961-1973
Guinea-Bissau: Independence to the Present
Guinea-Bissau: 19th century to 1960
Haile Selassie I
Hamdallahi Caliphate, 1818-1862
Harris, Prophet William Wade
Health: Medicine, Disease and Public Health: Colonial
Horton, James Africanus Beale
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
Hundred Years' War, 1779-1878
Igboland, 19th Century
Jabavu, John Tengo
Jameson Raid, Origins of South African War: 1895-1899
Jonathan, Chief Joseph Leabua
Kabarega and Bunyoro
Kagwa, Apolo
Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda
Kaunda, Kenneth
Kenya: Colonial Period: Administration, Christianity, Education and Protest to 1940
Kenya: Colonial Period: Economy 1920s and 1930s
Kenya: Independence to the Present
Kenya: Islam
Kenya: Kenyatta, Jomo: Life and Government of
Kenya: Mau Mau Revolt
Kenya: Mekatilele and Giriama Resistance, 1900-1920
Kenya: Nationalism, Independence
Kenya: 19th Century: Pre-Colonial
Kenya: World War I, Carrier Corps
Khama III
Khama, Seretse
Kimbangu, Simon and Kimbanguism
Kimberley and Diamond Fields
Kouyaté, Tiemoko Garan
Kruger, Paul
Labotsibeni
Lagos Colony and Oil Rivers Protectorate
Lenshina, Alice
Lesotho (Basutoland): Colonial Period
Lesotho (Basutoland): Colonization and Cape rule, 1868-84
Lesotho (Basutoland): Peasantry, rise of
Lesotho: Independence to the Present
Lesotho: Nationalism and Independence
Lesotho: Treaties and Conflict on the Highveld, 1843-1868
Lewanika I, the Lozi and the BSA Company
Liberia: Civil war, ECOMOG and Return to Civilian Rule
Liberia: Doe, Samuel K., Life and Era of
Liberia: Firestone
Liberia: 19th Century: Politics, Society and Economy
Liberia: Origins, Foundations, 19th Century
Liberia: Tolbert, William, Life and Era of
Liberia: Tubman, William V.S., Life and Era of
Libya: Foreign Policy under Gaddafi
Libya: Gaddafi (Qadhdhafi) and Jamahiriyya (Libyan Revolution)
Libya: Italian Colonization and Administration
Libya: Italian Invasion, 1911-1931
Libya: Muhammad al-Sanusi (c.1790-1859) and the Sanusiyya
Libya: Oil, Politics and OPEC
Libya: World War II and the Kingdom of Libya, 1942-69
Libya: Yusuf Pasha Karamanli and the Ottoman Reoccupation, 1795-1835
Lozi Kingdom and the Kololo
Lumumba, Patrice
Luthuli, Albert
Luwum, Janani
Ma'al-Aynayn
Macauley, Herbert
Madagascar: Colonial Period: French Rule
Madagascar: Democracy, Development, 1990s
Madagascar: French Conquest, Colonization
Madagascar: Great Rebellion, 1947-1948
Madagascar: Independence to 1972
Madagascar: Merina Kingdom, 19th Century
Madagascar: Reconciliation, Reform and Independence, 1948-1960
Madagascar: Reform and Revolution, 1972-1989
Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie
Makeke, Charlotte Makhanye
Makenye Kalemba
Malawi: Colonization and Wars of Resistance, 1889-1904
Malawi: Independence to the Present
Malawi: Long-Distance Trade, 19th Century
Malawi: Missionaries and Christianity, 19th Century
Malawi: Nationalism, Independence
Malawi: Ngoni Incursions from the South, 19th Century
Malawi (Nyasaland): Colonial Period: Chilembwe Rising, 1915
Malawi (Nyasaland): Colonial Period: Federation
Malawi (Nyasaland): Colonial Period: Land, Labor and Taxation
Mali (Republic of): Alliances and Wars
Mali (Republic of): Colonial Soudan Français
Mali (Republic of): Economy and Society, 19th Century
Mali, Republic of: Keita, Modibo, Life and Era of
Mali, Republic of: Nationalism, Federation, Independence
Mali, Republic of: Politics, Economics: 1990s
Mali, Republic of: Traoré, Moussa, Life and Era of
Mandela, Nelson
Matthews, Z.K.
Mauritania: Colonial Period: 19th Century
Mauritania: Domestic and International Politics and Conflict, 1980s and 1990s
Mauritania: Ethnicity, Conflict, Development, 1980s and 1990s
Mauritania: Independence and Western Sahara, 1960-1979
Mauritius: Indentured Labor and Society, 1835-1935
Mauritius: Nationalism, Communalism, Independence, 1935-1968
Mauritius: 1982 to the Present
Mauritius: Ramgoolam, Seewoosagur, Government of
Mauritius: Slavery and Slave Society to 1835
Mboya, Tom J.
Mfecane
Mokhehle, Ntsu
Mondlane, Eduardo
Morocco: Economics and Social Change since Independence
Morocco: Economy and Society, 19th Century
Morocco: Education since Independence
Morocco: French and Spanish Protectorates, 1903-1914
Morocco: Hassan II, Life and Government of Mozambique: Chissano and, 1986 to the Present
Morocco: Hay, Edward and John Drummond, British Diplomatic Protection, 1829-1903
Morocco: Immigration and Colonization, 1900-1950
Morocco: International Relations since Independence
Morocco: Lyautey, General Hubert, and Evolution of French Protectorate, 1912-1950
Morocco: Mawlay 'Abd al-Rahman, Life and Era of
Morocco: Mawlay Hasan and the Makhzen
Morocco: Mawlay Sulayman, Life and Era of
Morocco: Nationalism, Muhammad V, Independence, 1930-1961
Morocco: Resistance and Collaboration, Bu Hmara to Abdlekrim (Ibn 'Abd el-Krim)
Morocco: Spain in Morocco and the Sahara, 1900-1958
Moshoeshoe I, Founding of the Basotho kingdom
Mozambique: Colonial Period: Labor, Migration, Administration
Mozambique: Colonial Period: Resistance and Rebellions
Mozambique: FRELIMO and War of Liberation, 1962-1975
Mozambique: Machel and FRELIMO, 1975-1986
Mozambique: Ngoni Incursions from the South
Mozambique: 19th Century, Early
Mozambique: Renamo, Destabilization
Mphahlele, Ezekiel
Msiri: Yeke Kingdom
Mugabe, Robert
Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta
Mutesa (Kabaka)
Namibia: Independence to the Present
Namibia: 19th Century to 1880
Namibia (South West Africa): South African Rule
Namibia (South West Africa): German Colonization, 1883-1896
Namibia (South West Africa): League of Nations, United Nations Mandate
Namibia (South West Africa): Nama and Herero Risings
Namibia: Struggle for Independence, 1970-1990
Namibia: SWAPO and the Freedom Struggle
Natal, 19th Century
Négritude
Neto, Agostinho
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Niger: Colonial Period to Independence
Niger: French Occupation and Resistance
Niger: Independence to Present
Niger: 19th Century: Survey
Nigeria: Agriculture, Irrigation, Rural Development
Nigeria: Army
Nigeria: Biafran Secession and Civil War, 1967-1970
Nigeria: British Colonization to 1914
Nigeria: Colonial Period: Christianity and Islam
Nigeria: Colonial Period: Federation
Nigeria: Colonial Period: Intelligentsia, Nationalism, Independence
Nigeria: Colonial Period: Railways, Mining and Market Production
Nigeria: Conferences, Commissions, Nigerian Constitution: 1956-1960
Nigeria: Federalism, Corruption, Popular Discontent: 1960-1966
Nigeria: Gowon Regime, 1966-1975
Nigeria: Industry, Oil, Economy
Nigeria: Military Rule, 1983-1999
Nigeria: Murtala Muhammed, Obasanjo and Return to Civilian Rule, 1975-1979
Nigeria: Lugard, Administration, Indirect Rule
Nigeria: Opposition, 1990s, to the Fourth Republic
Nigeria: Second Republic, 1979-1983
Nigeria: World War I
Nigeria: World War II
Nkomo, Joshua
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nkumbula, Harry Mwaanga
Nonqawuse and the Cattle-Killing, 1857
Nyabingi Cult and Resistance
Nyerere, Julius
Obasanjo, Olusegun
Obote, Milton
Odinga, A. Oginga
Olympio, Sylvanus
Pedi Kingdom, and Transvaal, 1822-1879
Plaatje, Sol T.
Polisario and the Western Sahara
Rabih ibn Fadl Allah, Bahr el-Ghazal, Borno
Ramphele, Dr. Mamphela Aletta
Rawlings, J.J
Réunion: 1946 to the Present
Réunion: 19th Century to 1946
Rhodes, Cecil J.
Rhodes, Jameson, and Seizure of Rhodesia
Royal Niger Company, 1886-1898
Rudd Concession, 1888
Rwanda: 1962-1990
Rwanda: Civil Unrest, Independence, 1959-1962
Rwanda: Colonial Period: German and Belgian Rule
Rwanda: Genocide, Aftermath of
Rwanda: Genocide, 1994
Rwanda : Pre-Colonial, 19th Century
Samkange, Rev. D.T.
São Tomé & Principe, 1800 to present
Sassou-Nguesso, Denis
Savimbi, Jonas
Schreiner, Olive
Senegal: Casamance Province, Conflict in
Senegal: Colonial Period: Administration and Assimilation
Senegal: Colonial Period: Economy
Senegal: Colonial Period: Four Communes: Dakar, St Louis, Goré and Rufisque
Senegal: Colonial Period: Railways
Senegal: Faidherbe, Louis and Expansion of French Senegal, 1854-1865
Senegal: Independence to the Present
Senegal: Nationalism, Federation, Independence
Senegal: 19th Century, Later
Senegal: World War I
Senegal: World War II
Seychelles: Independence, Revolution and Reform, 1960 to Present
Seychelles: 1770 to 1960
Shaka and Zulu Kingdom, 1810-1840
Sierra Leone: Christianity, Education, Krio Diaspora
Sierra Leone: Development of the Colony, 19th Century
Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Civil War, 1990s
Sierra Leone: Margai, Sir Milton: Independence, Government of
Sierra Leone: Momoh, Joseph Saidu: Regime, 1986-1992
Sierra Leone: Origins, 1787-1808
Sierra Leone: Protectorate: Administration and Government
Sierra Leone: Protectorate: Economy
Sierra Leone: Stevens, Siaka and the APC
Sierra Leone: Temne, Mende and the Colony
Smuts, Jan C.
Sobukwe, Robert and the Pan-Africanist Congress
Soga, Tiyo
Sokoto Caliphate: Hausa, Fulani and Founding of
Sokoto Caliphate, 19th Century
Somalia: Barré, Muhammad Siad, Life and Government of
Somalia: Hassan, Muhammad Abdile, and Resistance to Colonial Conquest
Somalia: Independence, Conflict, Revolution
Somalia: 1990 to the Present
Somalia: 19th Century
Soshangane, Umzila, Gungunhane and the Gaza State
South Africa: Africa Policy
South Africa: African National Congress (ANC)
South Africa: Afrikaner Nationalism, Broederbond and National Party, 1902-1948
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid Struggle, International
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid Struggle: Townships, the 1980s
South Africa: Apartheid, 1948-59
South Africa: Apartheid, Education and
South Africa: Capitalist Farming, "Poor Whites," Labor
South Africa: Colored Identity
South Africa: Confederation, Disarmament, First Anglo-Boer War, 1871-1881
South Africa: Defiance Campaign, Freedom Charter, Treason Trials: 1952-1960
South Africa: Gandhi, Indian Question
South Africa: Gold on the Witwatersrand, 1886-1899
South Africa: Homelands and "Bantustans"
South Africa: Industrial And Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
South Africa: Mining
South Africa: Missionaries: 19th century
South Africa: 1994 to the Present
South Africa: Peace, Reconstruction, Union: 1902-1910
South Africa: Peasantry, African
South Africa: Rural Protest and Violence, 1950s
South Africa: Segregation, Political Economy of
South Africa: Sharpeville Massacre, 1960
South Africa: Soweto Uprising
South Africa: Transition, 1990-1994
South Africa: World War I and II
South African War, 1899-1902
Soyinka, Wole K.
Stanley, Leopold II, Scramble
Sudan: Civil War: 1990s
Sudan: Civil war, Independence, Military Rule, 1955-1964
Sudan: Condominium Period: Administration, Legacy in South
Sudan: Condominium Period: Economy
Sudan: Cotton, Irrigation and Oil, 1970s
Sudan: Mahdist State, 1881-1898
Sudan: Nimeiri, Peace, the Economy
Sudan: October Revolution, 1964
Sudan: Omdurman and Reconquest
Sudan: Sadiq Al-Mahdi Regime, 1980s
Sudan: Turabi's Revolution, Islam, Power
Sudan: Turco-Egyptian Period, 1820-1885
Suez Canal
Swaziland: Colonial Period: Land, Labor, Administration
Swaziland: Concessions, Annexation, 1880-1902
Swaziland: Kingship, Constitution, Independence
Swaziland: Mswati III, Reign of
Swaziland: Sobhuza I, Foundation of Ngwane Kingdom
Swaziland: Sobhuza II, Life and Government of
Swaziland: Swazi Kingdom, Survival of, 1839-1879
Tanganyika (Tanzania): African Association, 1929-48
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Colonial Period, British: Economy
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Colonial Period, British: "Indirect Rule"
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Early 19th Century
Tanganyika (Tanzania): German Invasion and Resistance
Tanganyika (Tanzania): German Rule: Land, Labor and Economic Transformation
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Maji Maji Rebellion, 1905-1907
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Nationalism, TANU, Independence
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Ngoni Incursion from the South
Tanganyika (Tanzania): Nyamwezi and Long-Distance Trade
Tanganyika (Tanzania): World War I
Tanzania (Tanganyika): Arusha Declaration
Tanzania (Tanganyika): Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), One Party Politics
Tanzania (Tanganyika): Democracy and Capitalism: 1990 to the Present
Tanzania (Tanganyika): Uganda, Relations with
Taylor, Charles
Thuku, Harry
Tippu Tip (Muhammed bin Hamed)
Togo: Dual Mandate Colonial Rule, 1919-1957
Togo: Eyadèma, Gnassingbe, Life and Era of
Togo: German Colonial Rule
Toivo ya Toiva
Tombalbaye, F. Ngarta
Tonga, Ila and Cattle
Touré, Samori and His Empire
Tuareg: 20th Century
Tukolor Empire of al-Hajj Umar
Tunisia: Ahmad Bey and Army Reform
Tunisia: Ben Ali, Liberalization
Tunisia: Bourguiba, Presidency of: Economic and Social Change
Tunisia: Bourguiba, Presidency of: Government and Opposition
Tunisia: Educational Policy and Development since Independence
Tunisia: French Protectorate,1878-1900
Tunisia: Immigration and Colonization, 1881-1950
Tunisia: Khayr al-Din and Constitutional and Administrative Reform, 1855-1878
Tunisia: Modern International Relations
Tunisia: Nationalism, Growth of, 1881-1938
Tunisia: Neo-Destour and Independence, 1934-1956
Tutu, Desmond
Uganda: Amin Dada, Idi: Coup and Regime, 1971-1979
Uganda: Buganda Agreement, Political Parties and Independence
Uganda: Colonial Period: Administration, Economy
Uganda: Colonial Period: Northern Uganda
Uganda: Colonization, Resistance, Uganda Agreement, 1890-1900
Uganda: Conflict, Regional Since 1990
Uganda: Early 19th Century
Uganda: Education
Uganda: Mwanga and Buganda, 1880s
Uganda: National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the winning of political power
Uganda: Obote: Second Regime, 1980-1985
Uganda: Obote's First Regime, 1962-1971
Uganda: Reconstruction: Politics, Economics
Uganda: Tanzanian Invasion, 1979-1980
'Uthman dan Fodio
Verwoerd, H.F.
Welensky, Roy
Western Sahara: 19th Century to the Present
Yoruba States: Trade and Conflict, 19th Century
Zaire: Politics, Regional
Zambia: Early 19th Century: Survey
Zambia: First Republic, 1964-1972
Zambia: Long-Distance Trade, 19th Century
Zambia: Nationalism, Independence
Zambia: Ngoni Incursion from the South
Zambia: 1991 to the Present
Zambia (Northern Rhodesia): British Occupation, Resistance: 1890s
Zambia (Northern Rhodesia): Colonial Period: Administration, Economy
Zambia (Northern Rhodesia): Copperbelt
Zambia (Northern Rhodesia): Federation, 1953-1963
Zambia (Northern Rhodesia): Mineworkers' Strikes: 1935, 1940
Zambia: Religious Movements
Zambia: Second Republic, 1973-1991
Zanzibar: Britain, Germany, Scramble
Zanzibar: BuSaidi Sultanate in East Africa
Zanzibar: Colonial Period
Zanzibar: Revolution and Union (Tanzania)
Zanzibar: Trade: Slaves, Ivory
Zimbabwe: Conflict and Reconstruction, 1980s
Zimbabwe: 1880s
Zimbabwe: Incursions from the South, Ngoni and Ndebele
Zimbabwe: 19th Century, Early
Zimbabwe: Since 1990
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia): UDI and the Smith Regime, 1964-1979
Zimbabwe: Second Chimurenga, 1966-1979
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): African Political and Trades Union Movements, 1920s and 1930s
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): Colonial Period: Land, Tax, Administration
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): Federation
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): Nationalist Politics, 1950s and 1960s
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): Ndebele and Shona Risings: First Chimurenga
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia): Urbanization and Conflict, 1940s
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, Lancaster House and Independence, 1978-80

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Postcolonial Africa

African Development Bank (ADB)
Agriculture, Cash Crops, Food Security
Aid, International, NGOs and the State
All-African People's Conference, 1958
Arab and Islamic World, Africa in
Arms, Armies: Postcolonial Africa
Art, Postcolonial
Banking and Finance
Civil War: Postcolonial Africa
Cold War, Africa and the
Colonialism, Inheritance of: Postcolonial Africa
Commonwealth, Africa and the
Communaute Financière Africaine (CFA)
Communications
Coups d'étât and Military Rule: Postcolonial Africa
Debt, International, Development and Dependency
Democracy: Postcolonial
Development, Postcolonial: Central Planning, Private Enterprise, Investment
Diamonds
Drama, Film: Postcolonial
Drought, Famine, Displacement
East African Community, The, 1967-1977
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Education, Higher, in Postcolonial Africa
Education in Postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa
Environment, Conservation, Development: Postcolonial Africa
Epidemics: Malaria, AIDS, other Disease: Postcolonial Africa
Federations and Unions, Postcolonial
Francophonie, Africa and the
Globalization, Africa and
Health: Medicine, Disease: Postcolonial
Human Rights: Postcolonial Africa
Industrialization and Development
Law, Islamic: Postcolonial Africa
Law and the Legal System: Postcolonial Africa
Lomé Conventions (Africa and the European Union)
Maghrib Unity, European Union and
Mining, Multinationals and Development
Multinationals and the State
Museums, History of: Postcolonial Africa
Music: Postcolonial Africa
Nationalism(s): Postcolonial Africa
Oil
Organization of African Unity (OAU) and Pan-Africanism
Pan-African Technical Organizations and Associations
Peacekeeping: Postcolonial Africa
Peasant Production, Postcolonial: Markets and Subsistence
Political Élites and Patronage: Postcolonial Africa
Political Identity
Political Parties and One-Party States
Population and Demography
Press: Northern Africa
Press: Southern Africa
Press: Tropical Africa
Refugees
Religion, Postcolonial Africa: African Theology, Indigenization
Religion, Postcolonial Africa: Church/State Relations
Religion, Postcolonial Africa: Independence and Churches, Mission-Linked and Independent
Religion, Postcolonial Africa: Islam
Religion, Postcolonial Africa: Neo-Pentecostalism
Rural Development, Postcolonial
Socialism: Postcolonial Africa
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Soviet Union and Africa
Sports: Postcolonial Africa
Tourism: Postcolonial
Trade Unions: Postcolonial
Transportation: Postcolonial Africa
Union Douanière et Economique de L'Afrique Centrale (UDEAC)
Urbanization, Housing and Employment
Water Supplies and Schemes
World Bank, IMF and Structural Adjustment

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Modern Cities of Historical Importance

Abuja
Accra
Addis Ababa
Alexandria
Algiers
Antananarivo
Bamako
Beira Corridor
Blantyre
Brazzaville
Bulawayo
Cairo
Cape Town
Casablanca
Conakry
Dakar
Dar es Salaam
Douala
Durban
Freetown
Harare
Ibadan
Johannesburg
Kampala
Kano
Khartoum
Kinshasa
Kumasi
Lagos
Libreville
Lomé
Lubumbashi
Luanda
Lusaka
Maputo
Mogadishu
Monrovia
Port Harcourt
Pretoria
Tangier
Tripoli
Tunis
Yaoundé
Zanzibar (City)

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Historiographical Surveys

Historiography of Africa
Historiography of Western Africa, 1790s-1860s
History, African: Sources of

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Outlines of Regional History

Eastern Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Africa

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Pan-African/Comparative Topics and Debates

Art and Architecture, History of African
Community in African Society
Diaspora: Historiographical Debates
Geography, Environment in African History
Labor: Cooperative Work
Language Classification
Mosque, Sub-Saharan: Art and Architecture of
Political Systems
Production and Exchange, Pre-Colonial
Religion, History of
Women: History and Historiography
World History, Africa in

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