Africa  to 1870 

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African Empires and States

North Africa

Phoenicia, Carthage, Rome, Vandal, Byzantine, Umayyad, Almoravid, Almohad, Ottoman

 

West Africa

"Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan"

Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Wolof, Hausaland, Bornu and Kanem

Cities of the upper Niger River Timbuktu, Djenné, Gao

Nok, Benin, Dahomey, Oyo and Ife,  Ashanti, Nupe, 

 

East Africa

Kush, Nubia, Axum, Ethiopia, Swahili City States

 

Central Africa

Benin, Ashanti, Kongo, Luba and Kuba,  Mwenemutapa, Zimbabwe, Ruwanda, Burundi, Lozi, Ngola

 

South Africa

Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu