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Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor. Trefor Jenkins (born 1932), human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA.
Sample of the Egyptian Book of the Dead of the scribe Nebqed, c. 1300 BC. Africa is divided into a great number of ethnic cultures. [17] [18] [19] The continent's cultural regeneration has also been an integral aspect of post-independence nation-building on the continent, with a recognition of the need to harness the cultural resources of Africa to enrich the process of education, requiring ...
African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.It has differentiated itself from other continental areas of historiography due to its multidisciplinary nature, as Africa's unique and varied methods of recording history have resulted in a lack of an established set of historical works ...
Yesaya Chibambo, author of A Short History of the Ngoni (1933), translated into English by Rev. Charles Stuart. [21] Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979), writer and social activist; Steve Chimombo (1945–2015), writer, poet, editor and teacher [22] Frank Chipasula (b. 1949), poet, writer, editor, publisher and academic [22]
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
African Sources for African History is a book series published by Brill that aims to make available critical editions of indigenous African narrative sources from sub-Saharan Africa. [1] The series aims to expand the sources available to historians of Africa, and to rectify bias that may have been introduced into the writing of African history ...
Upload file; Search. Search. ... The historians or writers in this category have specialized wholly or substantially in the history of Africa ... Historians of Africa"
The Urewe culture developed and spread in and around the Lake Victoria region of Africa during the African Iron Age. The culture's earliest dated artifacts are located in the Kagera Region of Tanzania , and it extended as far west as the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , as far east as the Nyanza and Western provinces of ...