Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...

Africa in History: Six historical debates from ... Choose a subject, or even two, and email us with your opinions, theories and stories. Please state the country in which you are resident.

Listen to Africa on the Eve of Colonialism, the seventeenth programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie Listen to Partition & Resistance , the ...

Listen to The Berbers Of North Africa, the third programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie ...

Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly ... boom in the world lived well. Many stories are told of the opulence of the ...

Listen to The Mfecane, the eighteenth programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie Listen to Apartheid, the twenty third programme in the BBC landmark ...

I enjoyed reading The Story of Africa, because it reminds me of my high school days in Africa. History was my favourite subject because I love all the leaders of the great empires of Africa ...

I find the "Story of Africa" site of the BBC to be painfully superficial and overcome by political correctness, to the detriment of history. Why for example is it OK for Shaka Zulu to slaughter ...

By Rene Caillie. Paris, 1830. Tippoo Tib: The Story of His Career in Central Africa. By Heinrich Brode. Metro Books, December 1969. UNESCO General History of Africa, University California Press ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died ...

It just bothers me that the story of Christianity is often presented (especially by Dr. Ali Mazrui in his films and writings) as a negative force that destabilized Africa and led to colonization ...