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Nomadic peoples from the Saharan north and agriculturalists from the south settled present-day Niger. The...

Various ethnic groups occupied southwestern Africa prior to Germany establishing a colony over most of...

In the first half of the second millennium A.D., northern Mozambican port towns were frequented...

In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, a series of...

Although known to Arab and European sailors since at least the early 1500s, the island...

The Amazigh and Bafour people were among the earliest settlers in what is now Mauritania...

Present-day Mali is named after the Mali Empire that ruled the region between the 13th...

Malawi shares its name with the Chewa word for flames and is linked to the...

Madagascar was one of the last major habitable landmasses on earth to be settled by...

Berbers have inhabited central north Africa since ancient times, but Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Persians, Egyptians,...

With 28 ethnic groups and languages, Liberia is one of the most ethnically diverse countries...