From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the ...

Its nine masts meant it was high-powered enough to link all of Germany’s African colonies with Berlin. This enabled it to send reports of Allied naval movements around the coast of Africa.

Much of what the map showed would have come as no surprise to Europeans familiar with geography. Its depiction of Europe and North Africa derived directly from Ptolemy; sub- Saharan Africa derived ...

In the late 19 th century, Africa comprised dozens of European colonies, with the British, French, Germans, Belgians and ...