When the navigator Alvise Cadamosto was the first European to enter one of the Cape Verde islands in 1456, they were not populated. Four years later, Portuguese seafarers Diego Gomes…
Beginnings From around AD 1000 presumably settled in the area of what is now Cameroon Bantu-speaking peoples who lived mainly from migrant agriculture and cattle breeding. They displaced the pygmies…
Presumably, the pygmies, who lived as hunters and gatherers, represented the indigenous population of today’s Burundi. From the 8th century, these were gradually replaced by the Hutu people who immigrated…
The first information about the national territory goes back to the 16th century, possibly back to the 12th century. At that time, kingdoms were under the rule of the Mossi…
Archaeological finds indicate that the area of today’s Botswana was settled long before the Christian era began (eg Smithfield, Wilton culture). Around 2,000 years ago, the area (and all of…
Small groups of Bushmen (pygmies) presumably lived in the area of what is now Benin as hunters and gatherers before the Christian era. After the first millennium AD Different tribes…
Beginnings From the 6th century AD various Bantu peoples settled on the territory of today’s Angola. They drove the originally resident “Bushmen” (San). From 1400, northern parts of the area…
Antiquity to the Middle Ages The territory of today’s Algeria was in ancient times part of the territory of Carthage, at that time the most important maritime and commercial power…
Traveling around Africa is not quite as easy as traveling around Europe and vaccinations will usually be required. But it is not on long roads as difficult as it may…