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  2. West African manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    West African manuscripts of Ségou, Mali, contain manuscripts detailing a jihad in West Africa that was led by Al-Hāj Umar Taal, who lived from 1797 CE and 1864 CE and was the leader of the Fuuta Tooro Tijāniyya. [ 1] West African manuscripts of the late 19th century CE and the early 20th century CE northern Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal ...

  3. Timbuktu Manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Timbuktu Manuscripts, or Tombouctou Manuscripts, is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali. The collections include manuscripts about art, medicine, philosophy, and science, as well as copies of the Quran. [1]

  4. History of West Africa - Wikipedia

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    The history of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. West Africa is west of an imagined north–south axis lying close to 10° east longitude, bordered by the ...

  5. African Dominion - Wikipedia

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    African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, by Michael A. Gomez, focuses on the regions surrounding the Middle Niger Valley.It can be thought of as tracing the rise and fall of empire as a form of local political organization in West Africa, culminating in the Songhay Empire; thus it primarily covers the millennium from the mid-sixth century to 1591 CE, when ...

  6. Nwando Achebe - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Achebe is a co-author of the 2018 History of West Africa E-Course Book (British Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2018), “a textbook aimed at West African students taking West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) History Paper 1, “West Africa and the Wider World from Earliest Times to 2000.” [13] She is also co ...

  7. Mary Kingsley - Wikipedia

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    English. Known for. Travels and writings on West Africa. For the English novelist, see Mary St Leger Kingsley. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, writer and explorer who made numerous travels through West Africa and wrote several books on her experiences there.

  8. Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 - Wikipedia

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    1991. Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 (Dutch: Verdeel en heers. De deling van Afrika, 1880–1914), is a history book by Dutch historian Henk Wesseling, published by Bert Bakker 1991. As the title suggests, the books deals with the European partition and colonisation of Africa. In the preface to Divide and Rule, Wesseling ...

  9. African historiography - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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