Location
The Resume
Origins of the Human Race
Great Early Civilization
Earliest traces of slavery
Home of the Black race
Why Africa might be annoying
Africa's history is littered with slave ownership, slave trading and slavery.
Although slavery was practiced for thousands of years, within four hundred years 15,000,000 Africans were exported as slaves mostly to the Americas, Middle East and North Africa.
3,500 years ago, Jews were enslaved in Egypt (circa 1500 BC).
African imperialists kept and traded slaves including the Asanti, the Kings of Bonny and Dahomey.
King Gezo on Dahomey said: 'The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery (1840's).'
Babatu, was famed as a Muslim slave trader, was born in Niger and conducted slave raids in Northern Ghana in the 1880's.
The king of Bonny (of what is now Nigeria) refused to accept Britain's declaration making slavery illegal in 1807.
He said: 'We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself.'
The poorest countries in the world are on Africa.
Africa suffers more famine and disease than any other continent.
The land was raped and colonized by Europeans.
Why Africa might not be annoying
The oldest human fossils have been found in Africa.
Earliest humans, Australopithecines (ape man), originated in Africa, appearing between 5 and 10 million years ago.
Anthropologist, Raymond Dart, discovered the Australopithecus in a cave near Taung, South Africa (1925).
Homo Habilis, the toolmakers, inhabited the land 2.5 million years ago.
Homo Erectus, a forerunner to modern man, inhabited the land 1.5 million years ago.
Fossils of Australopithecus and Homo Habilis can only be found in Africa, Homo Erectus moved on to Europe and Asia.
Homo Sapiens began inhabiting 1 million-40,000 BC.
During the Stone Age (40,000-10,000 BC), the inhabitants hunted and performed simple crafts.
A semi-complete skeleton of 'Lucy' was found in Omo Valley, Ethiopia (1974).
There is great diversity in the size of natives from pigmies to watusi.
More languages are spoken in Africa than any other continent.
Diamonds and gold are plentiful in Africa.
The ancient Egyptian civilizations had Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Nile River, Sphinx and Pyramids.
See Related: Algeria, Angola, Bassas da India, Benin, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Christmas Island, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europa Island, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Glorioso Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saint Helena & Dependencies, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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