now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest...
The Africans forcibly transplanted to the Americas through the black diaspora had their bodies and their corpus deterritorialized. Torn from their family domus, such bodies, both individual and collective, found themselves occupied by the emblems and codes of the European, who took possession of the...
They became the most urbanized African civilization before the arrival of Europeans. In the days of the slave trade, their territory was known as the Slave Coast. Much of their territory was eventually colonized by Britain. Around 20% of the Yoruba population practice their traditional religion ...
The current countries of Rwanda and Burundi were once colonized by the Germans, who named the region Ruanda-Urundi. After Germany's defeat inWorld WarI, however, Ruanda-Urundi was made a protectorate of Belgium. Belgium also exploited the land and people of Ruanda-Urundi, the Belgian Congo'...
As it happens with many other African countries, the colors of the flag of Senegal are the ones from the Pan-African movement, which got the same colors from the flag of Ethiopia, the only country in Africa that, despite being invaded and occupied by Italy, was never colonized. In additio...
Comoros was frequented by travelers from Africa, Madagascar, Indonesia, and Arabia before the first Europeans encountered the islands. Arabic influence has been the strongest. France colonized Mayotte in 1843 and by 1904 had annexed the remainder of the archipelago [source] ...
claim to stand and speak for Africans would rather be all over social media – the favored battleground for most armchair and keyboard activists nowadays – posting images of how Africans were savagely enslaved, colonized and treated as subhuman some decades and centuries ago,...
Servitude is a usual part of African ritual. Tribes would often use trade to obtain slaves by going to the head chief and trading for livestock. Not only did various tribes trade with the people of their countries, but with the Europeans of other nationalities as well. There were times that...
By 1200, chattel slavery had all but disappeared from northwestern Europe. Southern Europeans along the Mediterranean coast continued to purchase slaves from various parts of Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In Lisbon, for example, African slaves comprised one tenth of the ...
in a war. He told his adventures to another prisoner who wrote them down. His tales of riches in the Orient inspired Europeans like Vasca da Gamaand Christopher Columbusto look for a direct sea route with Asia which would reduce the hazards of travelling by land across many co...