Earth’s crust and the interior of the earth: The earth is almost like a sphere. Its radius...
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The orbit of the earth is an ellipse. Its length is 93,80,51,827 kilometres. The sun is located...
Everyday the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This process led many people...
The Europeans had frequented the coasts of West Africa since the fifteenth century and established settlements along...
The connections of West Africa with the Mediterranean world is a very old one, which long predates...
The European scramble for Africa culminated in the Berlin West African Conference of 1884-85. The conference was...
European sailors first reached sub-Saharan Africa in 1442, when Portuguese ships reached the Senegal river. The Portuguese...
The land of West Africa consists of contrasting kinds of physical environment. The forest environment differs from...
Most West African leaders were very optimistic about their countries’ future at independence. They hoped to transform...
The expansion of the missionary movement into Africa was part of the growing conception of Christian responsibility...
The term ‘Almoravid’ comes from the Arabic word ‘al-Murabit, literally meaning “one who is trying” but figuratively...
Created by a jihad launched by Usman dan Fodio (also spelt Usman Ibn Fodio, Uthman Dan Fuduye,...
Africa was the first continent, that Islam spread into out of Arabia in the early seventh century....
Serology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of blood types. It deals with the...
Art history is the study of art forms such as engravings, paintings, carvings and sculpture on stone...
Ethnomusicology is the scientific study of music (musicology) which focuses on the study of music forms in...
Ethnobotany is the scientific study of ancient remains of plants which are termed flora. Ethnozoology is the...
Numismatics is the study of coins. This study helps us to know where the coins were minted...
Ethnography is the study of present-day social institutions as well as the crafts and artistic skills of...
Linguistics is the scientific study of the origin, structure and changes of a language that occur in...
Archaeology is the study of a people’s culture of years past through excavation and examination of material...
There are two sources for the writing of history. They are the primary and the secondary sources...
The historian’s goal is not to collect the “facts” about the past but rather to acquire insights...
