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Many countries followed in the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in 1960 with the Year of Africa, which saw 17 African nations declare independence, including a large part of French West Africa. Most of the remaining countries gained independence throughout the 1960s, although some colonizers (Portugal in particular) were reluctant to relinquish ...
Africa's triple heritage, as envisioned by Mazrui and promoted in this documentary project, is a product resulting from three major influences: (1) an indigenous heritage borne out of time and climate change; (2) the heritage of eurocentric capitalism forced on Africans by European colonialism; and (3) the spread of Islam by both jihad and evangelism.
All African states are members of the African Union. The United States of Africa is a concept of a federation of some or all of the 54 sovereign states and two disputed states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem "Hail, United States of Africa". [1] [2] [3]
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Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950 (U of Nebraska Press, 2017). 378 pp. Harper, Jim C. Western-educated elites in Kenya, 1900-1963: the African American factor (Routledge, 2005). Kithinji, Michael Mwenda. "An imperial enterprise: The making and breaking of the University of East Africa, 1949 ...
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In West Africa, which may have been a major regional cradle in Africa for the domestication of crops and animals, [42] [43] Niger-Congo speakers domesticated the helmeted guineafowl [44] between 5500 BP and 1300 BP; [42] domestication of field crops occurred throughout various locations in West Africa, such as yams (d. praehensilis) in the ...
Herbst underscores that theorizing African state-building is necessary for a nuanced understanding of international relations because states in many other regions, including Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia face the same challenges that African states confront when controlling and policing their territories.