Month: July 2025

Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. From 1968 to ...

Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and ...

For centuries prior to colonization in the 19th century, the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean served as a key ...

Chad emerged from a collection of powerful states that controlled the Sahelian belt starting around the 9th century. These states focused ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) is a perennially weak state that sits at the crossroads of ethnic and linguistic groups ...

Powerful chiefdoms ruled much of the area of present-day Cameroon before it became a German colony known as Kamerun in ...

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

Established in the 1600s, the Burundi Kingdom has had borders similar to those of modern Burundi since the 1800s. Burundi’s ...

Many of Burkina Faso’s ethnic groups arrived in the region between the 12th and 15th centuries. The Gurma and Mossi peoples established ...

In the early 1800s, multiple political entities in what is now Botswana were destabilized or destroyed by a series of ...

Present-day Benin is comprised of about 42 ethnic groups, including the Yoruba in the southeast, who migrated from what is ...