1890s Western missionary control of the Nigerian and South African churches provokes African leaders to form the independent “Ethiopian” movement. 1903 Afrikaner P. L. Le Roux joins a group ...

This arrangement provided a model that other European nations and western and central African kingdoms would follow for centuries afterward. (See also: Tracing slaves to their African homelands.) ...

He signed her up for a new 10-week course over the summer that served up lessons on African kingdoms and the Black Panthers — the civil rights group, not the movie characters. “Not a lot of ...

The following is a timeline of key events that shaped ECOWAS and West Africa during the bloc’s 50-year history: 1975 - ECOWAS was founded on May 28, by 15 West African countries, namely Benin ...