My African History Project, Updates
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Topic: My African History Project, Updates
Posted By: Berosus
Subject: My African History Project, Updates
Date Posted: 18-Jan-2005 at 06:08
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Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
Date Posted: 22-Apr-2005 at 00:07
I'll be following your progress. I've always love africa.
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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 24-Apr-2005 at 00:14
Posted By: giani_82
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 17:57
Thanx for the links mate! I'd for sure check them out in the near future.
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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 16-Jun-2005 at 06:15
As you know, I have been working to write a concise history of Africa
for the past year and a half (actually I started in 2001, if you count
the papers on the Egyptian and Carthaginian civilizations).
Chapter 8 of that project is now complete. Called "Wind of
Change," it covers the years from 1914 to 1965 A.D. The following
topics/events are included:
World War I
Troubles in the Italian Empire
The Beginnings of African Nationalism
The Rif War and Maghreb Nationalism
The Road to World War II Passed Through Ethiopia
The Liberation of French Africa
The See-Saw Struggle in North Africa
Decolonization Begins
North Africa Rejoins the Arab World
The Algerian War
The Mau Mau Rebellion
"The African Year": Independence Below the Sahara
The Congo Crisis
South Africa and Rhodesia: Segregation Forever
Check it out at
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af08.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af08.html .
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In case you missed the other papers in this series, here they are again (some of the URLs have changed recently):
Chapter 1: The Original Africans
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af01.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af01.html
Chapter 2: Valley of the Pharaohs (Egypt before 654 B.C.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/egypt.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/egypt.html
Chapter 3: Carthage (814 to 264 B.C.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/carthage.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/carthage.html
Chapter 4: Africa in the Classical Era (654 B.C. to 641 A.D.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af04.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af04.html
Chapter 5: The Trading Kingdoms (641 to 1415 A.D.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af05.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af05.html
Chapter 6: The Forest Kingdoms (1415 to 1795)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af06.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af06.html
Chapter 7: The Dark Continent Partitioned (1795 to 1914)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af07.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af07.html
Special Feature: A List of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and the Kings of Ancient Nubia
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/pharaoh.html -
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/pharaoh.html
------------- Nothing truly great is achieved through moderation.--Prof. M.A.R. Barker
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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2005 at 21:53
Since I last posted here, I have been working on the last paper in the
African history project, one covering the years 1965-2005. I have
found a picture of an OAU summit meeting that Haile Selassie
hosted. The picture was dated to 1963, but I believe it was
actually taken in 1966, because that is the only year when both Kwame
Nkrumah and Jean-Bedel Bokassa would have been in a lineup of heads of
state. It would look great near the beginning of the paper I'm
working on now, but in order to use it, I need to identify all twelve
figures in it. So far I've been able to recognize or identify
more than half of them; can you help me put names on the rest of the
faces? I'm sure Tobodai will recognize some.
Front Row (left to right):
1. Grégoire Kayibanda? (Rwanda)
2. Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Central African Republic)
3. Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)
4. Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)
5. Unknown
6. Mobutu Sese Seko (Congo-Kinshasa or Zaire)
Back row (left to right again):
1. Kwame Nkrumah? (Ghana)
2. Milton Obote (Uganda)
3. Julius Nyerere (Tanzania)
4. Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia)
5. Unknown
6. Unknown
Some of the heads of state I would expect to see are Hastings Banda of
Malawi, Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Felix
Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, William Tubman of Liberia, and
Francois Tombalbaye of Chad. If any of them are here, I don't
recognize them.
------------- Nothing truly great is achieved through moderation.--Prof. M.A.R. Barker
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Posted By: Imperator Invictus
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2005 at 22:45
Wow that's quite an extensive project you have going!
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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 24-Nov-2005 at 00:11
The safari is now finished. For at least a year and a half I have been sending out announcements concerning my project to write a complete history of Africa. Well, the ninth and last paper in the series, "The Independence Years," has just gone up. This one covers the last forty years, 1965 to 2005.
I thought that some of the other history papers I had written, like Chapter 16 of the Middle Eastern series, were long, but this one is my longest yet! The original manuscript came out to 86 pages in WordPerfect, and it took two hours just to run the spell-check. Finally, I had to divide it into two parts so that my search engine could index it.
My apologies in advance to you dial-up users. This time I had to cover what was happening in fifty-three nations, compared with eighteen nations in the Middle East, thirty-six in Europe and eleven in Southeast Asia. And most of Africa's nations don't have a recent history that is dull and peaceful, like Canada or Switzerland; the last forty years have been "interesting times," in the Chinese sense of the expression. Let the record show that when I started building this website, I promised to deliver the story of "the rise and fall of just about everybody," and at least in the case of Africa, I succeeded! I think I've earned a vacation for the rest of the year, yes?
Here are the URLS and the topics covered:
Part I
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af09a.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af09a.html
Independence: Tying Up the Loose Ends Civil War in the Ex-Portuguese Empire Who Owns the Western Sahara? One-Man Rule: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly North Africa Takes a Military Road (includes special sections on Tunisia & Egypt, Algeria, Somalia & Sudan, Libya and Mauritania)
Nigeria: The Great Underachiever The Island at the End of the World
The Horn of Africa: Horn of Famine (includes special sections on Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia)
Part II
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af09b.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af09b.html
Southern Africa: The Fall of Apartheid (includes special sections on Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Southwest Africa/Namibia)
Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo: Still the Dark Heart of Africa
America's Stepchild and Her Anarchic Neighbors (includes special sections on Liberia, the Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone)
The Islamist Menace Starting Over Again With the African Union Modern African Demographics The Challenges Facing Modern Africa
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And here are the other papers in this series, in case you haven't seen them yet:
Chapter 1: The Original Africans
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af01.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af01.html
Chapter 2: Valley of the Pharaohs (Egypt before 654 B.C.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/egypt.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/egypt.html
Chapter 3: Carthage (814 to 264 B.C.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/carthage.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/carthage.html
Chapter 4: Africa in the Classical Era (654 B.C. to 641 A.D.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af04.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af04.html
Chapter 5: The Trading Kingdoms (641 to 1415 A.D.)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af05.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af05.html
Chapter 6: The Forest Kingdoms (1415 to 1795) http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af06.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af06.html
Chapter 7: The Dark Continent Partitioned (1795 to 1914)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af07.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af07.html
Chapter 8: "Wind of Change" (1914 to 1965)
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af08.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af08.html
Special Feature: A List of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and the Kings of Ancient Nubia
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/pharaoh.html - http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/pharaoh.html
Enjoy!
------------- Nothing truly great is achieved through moderation.--Prof. M.A.R. Barker
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Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 09-Dec-2005 at 17:39
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