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OVERVIEW The Luba Empire was one of the most significant pre-colonial political formations in Central Africa. It developed from the societies inhabiting the Upemba Depression...
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OVERVIEW The Lunda Empire was one of the most powerful and influential pre-colonial states of Central Africa. It flourished between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries...
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OVERVIEW The Kingdom of Kongo was one of the most influential and highly organised states of medieval and early modern west-central Africa. It occupied a...
OVERVIEW The Kanem–Bornu Empire traces its origins to around the 9th century CE, when the Kanembu people founded the Kingdom of Kanem east of Lake...
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Overview The Mali Empire was one of the greatest empires in West African history. It emerged in the 13th century following the decline of the...
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OVERVIEW The Ghana Empire, traditionally known by the Soninke name Wagadu, was one of the earliest major states to emerge in the western Sahel and...
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Grégoire Kayibanda (May 1, 1924 – December 15, 1976) was a Rwandan politician, journalist and nationalist leader who led Rwanda to independence from Belgian colonial...
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Ramapolo Hugh Masekela (April 4, 1939 – January 23, 2018), popularly known as Hugh Masekela, was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, singer and anti-apartheid...
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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (December 8, 1941 – April 22, 2025) was a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, literary critic and professor who became one of Africa’s most...
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Garmame Neway (1924 December 1960) was the intellectual who inspired and, together with his brother, Brigadier-General Mengestu Neway, led the 1960 coup against Haile Selassie‘s...
