African History Encyclopaedia

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Lesotho is a small, mountainous country located on the Drakensberg escarpment on the eastern edge of the southern African plateau. With a territory...

A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Sierra Leone is a small country, roughly circular in shape, and occupying the southwest coast of West Africa between 6° 55′ and...

AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Republic of Botswana is situated on the southern slope of the great southern African plateau. Landlocked, about 220,000 square miles (569,000...

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Equatorial Guinea is the modern name given to the former Spanish colony known as the Equatorial Region of Spain. It consists of Continental...

Emil Solomon Sachs (died 1976) was the General Secretary of the South African Garment Workers’ Union, a non-racial organization, for 24 years, and a leader,...

Walter Rubusana (February 21, 1858-April 19, 1936) was one of the most prominent Africans of his day, gaining distinction in the fields of religion, literature,...

Edward R. Roux (1903-March 1966), a prominent member of the Communist Party of South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s and a professional botanist, is...

Sir James Rose-Innes (January 8, 1855-January 6, 1942), a white English-speaking South African, was a lawyer, journalist and politician who was attached to the school...

Cecil John Rhodes (July 5, 1853-March 26, 1902) was a visionary forward-looking imperialist whose personal career was to have an immense impact on the history...

Ntim Gyakari (about 1670 to November 1701) was Denkyerahene (ruler of Denkyera) from about 1692 to 1701. Having provoked a war with the Asante states,...