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History for Grownups
copyright 2007,
David White

Modern Africa

Africa in the modern day is a continent full of conquerors, independence, culture, and strife.

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Barbary States
Morocco, Tunisia, Tripoli, etc.

The Scramble for Africa
European powers compete for influence

David Livingstone
Famed Scottish explorer and missionary

Henry Stanley
Explorer who, among other things, found Livingstone

The Transvaal War
This South African conflict is also known as the First Boer War

The Boer War
Epic struggle between Britain and Dutch Boers

History of the Anglo-Zulu War
Another of Britain's colonial military struggles

The Berlin Conference
European agreements that partitioned Africa

Ethiopia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Menelik, Selassie, Mussolini, etc.

War in North Africa
Balanced, detailed examination of this pivotal set of WWII conflicts

The North African Campaign
Allied efforts to defeat Axis troops during World War II

Decolonization of Africa
Post-WWII era of freedom

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