Africa – Gambia

Dakar, Senegal (1857- )
Dakar was the political center of French West Africa and is the capital of modern Senegal. Located on Cape Verde,...
June 1st, 2010

(1926) John Williamson Kuyé, “Right of the People to Self-Determination”
John Williamson Kuyé, an early 20th Century advocate of African self-rule was in many respects part of the first wave...
August 7th, 2009

Mouride Sufi Brotherhood
The Mouride Sufi Brotherhood is a sect of Islam that boasts over four million followers today, mostly concentrated in Senegal...
May 14th, 2009

Samori Touré (1830-1900)
Warrior king, empire builder and hero of the resistance against the French colonization of West Africa during the 19th century,...
February 22nd, 2009

Songhai Empire (ca. 1375-1591)
The Songhai Empire was the largest and last of the three major pre-colonial empires to emerge in West Africa. From...
June 29th, 2008

Mali Empire (ca. 1200-1545 )
The Mali Empire was the second of three West African empires to emerge in the vast savanna grasslands located between...
June 29th, 2008

Mansa Musa (1280-1337)
Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside...
June 14th, 2008

Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
Many Europeans have long exhibited a fascination with the African continent. However their knowledge of Africa was often incorrect or...
April 8th, 2008

Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926-2016 )
U.S. Ambassador Orison Rudolph Aggrey was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of James Emman Kwegyir, an African immigrant...
July 24th, 2007