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Sahara Desert The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic. The desert comprises much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean …

A Harvard researcher has declared that Africans are the only race that has 100 percent human DNA while the rest have Neanderthal DNA in them. While this seems controversial another separate study colludes with the Harvard study. Dr. David Emil Reich, a genetics professor at Harvard, and his colleagues analyzed the genetic variants of 846 non-African people, 175 people who …

King Ibrahim Njoya was the ruler of Bamum, the great ethnic group in what is now western Cameroon, in 17th Century from the years of 1860 to 1933. The history of the Bamum people was preserved before his reign at the end of the 19th century, mainly through oral transmission from one generation to the other. Because of concerns about …

Although Hippocrates is considered by many to be the father of Medicine, he is not really the first doctor in history (although his contribution is undeniable). That honor would fall to the Egyptian scholar Imhotep. Imhotep means ‘he that comes in peace’. Born in 27th century BCE, Egypt, Imhotep was no only a physician but also an architect, astrologer, scribe, …

Many writers on African history did not believe until recently that African societies had any sort of tradition of writing. This idea has gradually lost recognition since the rediscovery of ancient collections of manuscripts, some dating back to at least the 8th century A.D. In present-day Ethiopia, about 250,000 old manuscripts from the Timbuktu libraries survive. Also, at the southern …

The Dinka people are a Nilotic tribe from South Sudan, but they do have a significant community in the diaspora. They live mostly along the Nile, from Mangalla to Renk, in Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (formerly two out of three Sudanese Southern Provinces) and Dinka Ngok of Abyei Area in South Sudan. The Dinka originated from the Gezira, in …

Ancient Egyptian writing formed somewhere before the Early Dynastic Period. The idea of the written word was first created in Mesopotamia and spread through trade into Egypt, according to some scholars. Although there was probably cross-cultural contact between the two regions, Egyptian hieroglyphics are entirely of Egyptian origin; there is no evidence of early writings documenting non-Egyptian ideas, locations, or …

With relation to the world history, the connection to one of the richest kings that has ever lived is a product of Mali’s wealth. King Mansa Musa from Mali is the richest man who ever lived. Mali has one of the world’s oldest known universities. Its literary impact was so wide which included many academic studies documenting African and Southern …

It is important to human civilization that we be able to count and measure the world around us. The earliest recorded development of measurement and calculation in Africa confirms the continent as the origin of both simple and advanced mathematics. The first proof of this particular discovery was the Lebombo Bone in Africa during the Upper Palaeolithic Period. The baboon …