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The vast majority of kingdoms included in this list existed prior to the Scramble for Africa (c. 1880–1914) when almost all of the continent came under the control of European powers. Some kingdoms, such as the Kingdom of Ardra in Benin , Kingdom of Buganda in Uganda , or the Kingdom of Bailundo in Angola , still exist today as non ...
African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonial African kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures incorporating various populations and polities into a single entity, usually through conquest. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Listed below are known African empires and their respective capital cities.
A map of Africa showing the continent's political systems: three monarchies (in red) and republics (in blue). Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme power resided with an individual who was recognized as the head of state. [1]
The African Great Lakes kingdoms refers to the numerous historic kingdoms in the African Great Lakes region. These polities existed sometime between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries as independent kingdoms, and had similar and yet sometimes distinct cultures, values and traditions.
The Legends of Africa reflect a wide-ranging series of kings, queens, chiefs and other leaders from across the African continent including Mali, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Africa. Igbo-Ukwu of the Igbo people. Ife king's head in the British Museum.
African history was initially written by outsiders (Europeansand Arabs) and under the pretence of Western superioritysupported by scientific racism. While Christianityhas a long history in North and East Africa, there were few Christian states preceding the colonial period, other than Ethiopiaand Kongo.
The "Kingdom of Africa" (Regno d'Africa) pinpointed in red. The Kingdom of Africa was an extension of the frontier zone of the Kingdom of Sicily in the former Roman province of Africa (Ifrīqiya in Arabic), [ a ] corresponding to Tunisia and parts of Algeria and Libya today. The main primary sources for the kingdom are Arabic (Muslim); [ b ...
The terms African civilizations, also classical African civilizations, or African empires are terms that generally refer to the various pre-colonial African kingdoms.The civilizations usually include Egypt, Carthage, Axum, [1] Numidia, and Nubia, [1] but may also be extended to the prehistoric Land of Punt and others: Kingdom of Dagbon, the Empire of Ashanti, Kingdom of Kongo, Empire of Mali ...