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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by...

Present-day Djibouti was the site of the medieval Ifat and Adal Sultanates. In the late...

Various small kingdoms ruled the area of Cote d'Ivoire between the 15th and 19th centuries,...

Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of...

Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River...

For centuries prior to colonization in the 19th century, the Comoros archipelago in the Indian...

Chad emerged from a collection of powerful states that controlled the Sahelian belt starting around...

The Central African Republic (CAR) is a perennially weak state that sits at the crossroads...

Powerful chiefdoms ruled much of the area of present-day Cameroon before it became a German...

The Portuguese discovered and colonized the uninhabited islands of Cabo Verde in the 15th century;...

Established in the 1600s, the Burundi Kingdom has had borders similar to those of modern...