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,...
(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...
Mouride Sufi Brotherhood
The Mouride Sufi Brotherhood is a sect of Islam that boasts over four million followers today, mostly concentrated in Senegal...
Samori Touré (1830-1900)
Warrior king, empire builder and hero of the resistance against the French colonization of West Africa during the 19th century,...
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...
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...
Mansa Musa (1280-1337)
Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside...
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...
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...
