They were also the first rulers in Africa to embrace Christianity and make it the kingdom's official religion. This history is little known, both in Africa and elsewhere, because a lot of ...

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of ...

African traditional religions produced no written works, but derived their authority from oral history, custom and practice, and the power of priests, kings and others gifted in dealing with ...

This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments ...

History had Jacob Ajayi ... Rodney taught outside official classrooms on Europe developing Africa. Religion and philosophy were Mbiti’s intellectual war fronts. He distinguished himself by ...

See the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, experience the power of religion, the injustices of slavery, and chart the expansion of trade between Africa and other continents. Hear what it was ...