Coming out of the African Savanna to the bustling city of Johannesburg, South Africa, was a dramatic change from our eight days of living in tents in the national parks of Zimbabwe and Botswana. The ...

Dingaan the Vulture was one of Darkest Africa’s crudest black despots.* In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded ...

General history in Africa, Vol. 6, is titled Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s / edited by J.F. Ajayi. siris_sil_516752 ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th century? Or that South Africa became integrated into a ...