Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary, soldier and politician who ruled Libya for over four decades. His leadership was marked by radical ideologies, authoritarian control, ambitious pan-African and pan-Arab visions,
For centuries, Arabs freely traded slaves across Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, into every part of the Arab world. However, unlike the Westerners who invested in slavery for
The world has heard a thousand stories of the trans-Atlantic Slave trade—of how strange men with skin like milk rampaged the rich foliage of Africa’s lands and took
Every great empire that rises must eventually fall, or so history has shown. Across Africa and beyond, once-mighty civilizations have ascended to power, only to succumb to the tides of
Before the arrival of colonial masters, the African landscape was home to an intricately organised economic system that reflected the creative cultures, dynamic lifestyle, deep-rooted traditions, timeless values and abundant
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* Prior to the 4th century, Ethiopia was a Polytheist state majorly made up of the Aksum empire, a wealthy civilisation that controlled major trade routes in the region.
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