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Bagamoyo is a historic coastal town founded at the end of the 18th century. It lies on the Zanzibar Channel, 45 miles (75 km) northwest...

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Gorée Island lies just two miles offshore off the coast of Dakar in Senegal and was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. European...

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Bunce Island is an island in the Sierra Leone River. It is situated in the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about...

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Established in 1958, the Mole National Park, situated in the Savannah region of Ghana, stands out as the country’s largest wildlife refuge among all national...

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Situated approximately 35 kilometres north of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. It is the oldest and largest botanical garden in Ghana.  It was established...

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KENYA/UGANDA/TANZANIA: Lake Victoria, is the largest African Great Lake by area, the world’s largest tropical lake, and the second largest fresh water body in the...

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Lake Tanganyika, Africa’s second largest after Lake Victoria, is situated in western Tanzania along the border with Congo, Burundi and Zambia. It covers an area...

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MOROCCO/ALGERIA/TUNISIA: Located on the northwestern coast of Africa, the Atlas Mountains are a series of mountain ranges that separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of...

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Located between the Arabian Peninsula and the African continent, the Red Sea separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea on the west from...

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Situated on “Plateau Atemengue”, Yaoundé’s political and administrative centre, the Reunification Monument was built in 1972, during the early post-independence period under President Ahmadou Ahidjo,...

Editor’s Note

This website features a collection of articles largely from previously published volumes of the Encyclopaedia Africana, specifically the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, which highlights notable individuals from various regions of Africa. Please note that in these volumes, some names of people, towns, and countries were spelled differently than they are today. We have retained these historical spellings to preserve the integrity of the original publications. In some instances, the current spellings are also provided for easy reference.
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