The Europeans had frequented the coasts of West Africa since the fifteenth century and established settlements along...
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
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 expansion of the missionary movement into Africa was part of the growing conception of Christian responsibility...
Africa was the first continent, that Islam spread into out of Arabia in the early seventh century....
SIMILARITIES The three empires were located close to the Niger River; they developed from the same Western...
In 1884, Otto Edward Leopold, Prince of Bismark, Duke of Lavenburg, popularly referred to as Otto von...
The abolition of the slave trade and the rise of the legitimate trade, subsequently led to the...
Anthony Enahoro was born in Uromi (Edo- State) on the 22nd of July, 1923. He had his...
Mallam Aminu Kano was born in Kano city in 1920. After his elementary school education in Kano,...
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in December 1912 in the town of Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi (Bauchi State)....
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in Zungeru town (now in Niger State) on the 16th of November...
Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo popularly called Awo, was born in Ikenne (now in Ogun State) on the 6th...
Songhai Empire was a very important empire that commanded the respect of her neighbours. When the empire...
Social Factors: The sack and subjugation of Timbuktu by external forces exposed the misrule of some emperors;...
Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard was born on 22 January, 1858. Between 1901 and 1928 he served...
Nationalism is the feeling of pride, which people have about their country and identity. It also means...
The non-centralised states of the Igbos of the South-eastern Nigeria interacted actively with close and distant neighbours...
Amalgamation means bringing together two or more groups or territories under one administration. At the wake of...
The people of Hausaland shared a lot of relationships and interactions with the Kanem-Borno in the Lake...
By the 19th century, Europeans missionaries had established their missions in Nigeria, but without making remarkable impact...
By the 18th century, European travelers had mapped Africa’s entire coastline in detail. However, the interior of...
In 1788, the African Association was formed in England to promote the exploration of Africa in the...
