African History

Highlights of the History of Africa

African Dancers


Readings in the history of the lands of the continent: the coastal green-belt of the northern coast, the Sahara Desert. the jungles of the tropics, and the velts of the south by some of the greatest writers.

Some of the years listed below are approximate.

South

YearTitleAuthor(s)
1806Cape Colony Acquired by Great BritainHenry Bryden
1867Diamonds Discovered in South AfricaGardner F. Williams
1899The Boer WarArthur Conan Doyle| |James F.J. Archibald
1910Union of South Africa FormedStephen Leacock

Central

YearTitleAuthor(s)
1840Livingstone’s African DiscoveriesDavid Livingstone| |Thomas Hughes
1896Italy in Africa 1896Frederick Augustus Edwards
1898Meeting at FashodaWinston S. Churchill
1908The Reform of the Congo HorrorJohn Daniels| |M. Van Housen

North

YearTitleAuthor(s)
5000 BCThe Green SaharaJack Le Moine
202 BCBattle of ZamaLivy
1270Louis IX Leads the Last CrusadeJoseph François Michaud
1804The Tripolitan War of 1804James Fenimore Cooper
1830French Takes AlgiersFrancis Pulszky
1837Abd-el-Kader and France’s Conquest of AlgeriaEdgar Sanderson
1911The Turkish-Italian WarWilliam T. Ellis

Egypt

YearTitleAuthor(s)
5900 BCThe Dawn Of CivilizationGaston Maspero
2500 BCPyramid Builders of EgyptArthur Gilman
51-30 BCCleopatra, Caesar and AntonyJohn P. Mahaffy
30 BCDeath of Antony and CleopatraHenry George Liddell
969Fatimites Conquer EgyptStanley Lane-Poole
1250Mamelukes Usurp Power In EgyptSir William Muir
1798Napoleon’s Egyptian WarCharles Knight
1811The Massacre of the MamalukeAndrew A. Paton
1881Great Britain Expands Control of EgyptJames Franck Bright

General

 

YearTitleAuthor(s)
1425Atlantic Slavery BeginsArthur Helps
1497Vasco Da Gama Sails Around Africa and Opens the Sea Route To IndiaGaspar Correa
1517Slavery Legalized in AmericasSir Arthur Helps

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