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Middle Stone Age West Africans likely dwelled continuously in West Africa between MIS 4 and MIS 2, and likely were not present in West Africa before MIS 5. [2] Amid MIS 5, Middle Stone Age West Africans may have migrated across the West Sudanian savanna and continued to reside in the region (e.g., West Sudanian savanna, West African Sahel). [2]
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
The terms African civilizations, also classical African civilizations, or African empires are terms that generally refer to the various pre-colonial African kingdoms.The civilizations usually include Egypt, Carthage, Axum, [1] Numidia, and Nubia, [1] but may also be extended to the prehistoric Land of Punt and others: Kingdom of Dagbon, the Empire of Ashanti, Kingdom of Kongo, Empire of Mali ...
The Kingdom of Butua [pronunciation?] or Butwa (c. 1450 –1683) was a pre-colonial African state located in what is now southwestern Zimbabwe.Butua was renowned as the source of gold for Arab and Portuguese traders.
In West Africa, which may have been a major regional cradle in Africa for the domestication of crops and animals, [27] [28] Niger-Congo speakers domesticated the helmeted guineafowl [29] between 5500 BP and 1300 BP; [27] domestication of field crops occurred throughout various locations in West Africa, such as yams (Dioscorea praehensilis) in ...
The Kingdom of Kquoja or Koya or Koya Temne, or the Temne Kingdom (1505–1896), was a pre-colonial African state in the north of present-day Sierra Leone.. The kingdom was founded by the Temne ethnic group in or around 1505 by migrants from the north, seeking trade with the coastal Portuguese in the south.
Novels set in precolonial Africa (1 C, 6 P) P. Precolonial kingdoms of the Gambia (2 C, 7 P) S. Sahelian kingdoms (9 C, 38 P) Serer precolonial kingdoms (4 P)
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...