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King Leopold II, 10,
10
King Menes, 28
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
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
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
O
Omugabe people, 50
Ottoman Empire, 19
P
Pan-Africanism, 74, 75
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
T
Tanzania,
44–45
, 55.
See also
Serengeti National
Park
Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria,
24
Temple of Philae, Aswan, Egypt,
29
Tertullian, 19
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
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