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An early title page from The History and Description of Africa by Leo Africanus (1485-1554), first published in 1526.

Biface from Blombos Cave, South Africa. It belongs to the Africa Middle Stone Age (MSA) tool culture and has been dated to c. 71,000 years old.

Olive oil amphora from Africa and found at Ostia. 3rd century CE. Museo delle Navi Romane di Fiumicino. (National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia) This amphora is stamped with its place of manufacture; Sullechtum in the Roman province...

A map indicating the general direction and timings of the spread of Islam in Africa from the 7th to 18th century CE

The hill-site of Mapungubwe, capital of the kingdom of Mapungubwe (11-14th century CE). Located at the very north of South Africa near the Limpopo River.

Northwest Africa after 743 CE, when the Umayyad Caliphate had been overthrown in the region by the Berber Revolt of 739 - 743 CE.

A photograph of a group of Supermarine Spitfires of the Royal Canadian Air Force at Goubrine in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Nothern Africa under Roman rule. From H.Kiepert (1879), Historischer Schulatlas.

A cartoon in the French magazine "L'illustration" (January 3, 1885) presenting a critical view of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85. It depicts Otto von Bismarck (1815-98), Chancellor of Germany, cutting a cake labeled 'Africa' with a knife...

A map illustrating the general route of the Bantu migration which occurred in various stages from the second millennium BCE to c. 1500 CE.