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Timeline. 5000 BCE. Organised farming begins in Egypt. c. 3500 BCE. The Sahara desert begins to spread in Africa due to climate change. 2000 BCE. Speakers of the Bantu language begin migrating southward. c. 2000 BCE. Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
African history was initially written by outsiders (Europeans and Arabs) and under the pretence of Western superiority supported by scientific racism. While Christianity has a long history in North and East Africa, there were few Christian states preceding the colonial period, other than Ethiopia and Kongo.
Africa timeline. 15 million years ago. Large primates happy at ground level . A primate of this period, at ease both in the trees and on the ground, is probably the common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Human evolutionary genetics. Hominidae.
Terrorist bombing attacks at two U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kill 250 people and injure another 6,000. Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana wins Miss Universe beauty pageant, becoming the first black African-born woman to hold the title.
African independence. Independence movements in Africa began with the liberation of Ghana in 1957 and ended with the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s. The postcolonial period has been challenging, as many countries struggle to regain stability in the aftermath of colonialism.
The General History of Africa (GHA) is a pioneering corpus, unparalleled in its ambition to cover the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges faced by Africans and their Diasporas in the world.
Africa is the setting for the long dawn of human history. From about four million years ago ape-like creatures walk upright on two feet in this continent. Intermediate between apes and men, they have been named Australopithecus.
