Precolonial Kingdoms & Empires
- Africa's Biggest Precolonial Empires: What's Verified, and What Just Sounds True (Article)
- Cheikh Anta Diop and the Contested Question of Ancient Egypt's Race (Article)
- Dar es Salaam: From Sultan's Port to Tanzania's Commercial Capital (Article)
- Did a Queen Candace Really Halt Alexander the Great? The Legend and the Real Kandakes of Kush (Article)
- Emperor Fasiladas Expelled the Jesuits, and Historians Credit It With Keeping Ethiopia Free (Article)
- From Gold Coast to Ghana: The 1957 Independence and the Name Nkrumah Chose (Article)
- Gordon Laing Won the Race to Timbuktu, and Was Murdered Two Days Later (Article)
- Hanno the Navigator and the Ancient Sighting of Mount Cameroon Erupting (Article)
- Herodotus on the Ethiopians and the 'Black' Indians (Article)
- How a Royal Title Became the Name 'Angola' (Article)
- Imhotep: The Ancient Egyptian Polymath Who Became a God (Article)
- Incwala: The Sacred Tree and the Bull That Renew Eswatini's Kingship (Article)
- Kanem-Bornu: One of Africa's Longest-Lived States (Article)
- King Ezana of Aksum's Conversion to Christianity, and How His Coins Prove It (Article)
- Mansa Musa: How Rich Was History's Wealthiest Man? (Article)
- Mansa Musa's 1324 Pilgrimage to Mecca (Article)
- Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Four Decades Against the Portuguese (Article)
- Shaka and the Founding of the Zulu Kingdom (Article)
- Sungbo's Eredo: A 100-Mile Wall in Nigeria That Took a Century to Rediscover (Article)
- The Ancient Empire of Ghana, and Why It Isn't the Modern Country (Article)
- The Disputed Legend of a Pre-Columbian Malian Voyage to the Americas (Article)
- The Kasubi Tombs: Buganda's Royal Burial Site, Burned Twice and Rebuilt (Article)
- The Land of Punt: Egypt's Trading Partner That Modern Science Is Still Locating (Article)
- The Mutapa Empire: Great Zimbabwe's Successor, and a Size Claim Historians Still Dispute (Article)
- The Nok Civilisation: Central Nigeria's Terracotta Culture, and What Its Dates Actually Show (Article)
- The Nubian Pyramids of Meroë and the Treasure Hunter Who Destroyed Them (Article)
- The Sokoto Caliphate: West Africa's Most Populous 19th-Century State (Article)
- The Zulu Kingdom: The Smallest Empire on This List, and the Most Famous (Article)
- Timbuktu's Golden Age as a Center of Islamic Scholarship (Article)
- Why Durban's Airport Carries the Zulu King's Name (Article)
- African Kingdoms & Empires: The Great States of Precolonial Africa (Pillar)
- Ancient & Precolonial Africa (Era)