A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

But it took a couple of decades for the European colonialism to fully collapse; France was fighting for Algeria until 1962 and Portugal did not abandon its African colonies until 1974. So this map ...

1680: The Royal African company transports 5000 African captives annually. By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. ... • Map: The British Colonies ...

Fracturing states in Africa are redrawing colonial maps by J. Brian Atwood, opinion contributor - 07/05/21 4:01 PM ET. by J. Brian Atwood, opinion contributor - 07/05/21 4:01 PM ET.

A research project from a University of Colorado Boulder professor could help trace the path of African cultures that came to the Americas through slave ships, as well as provide more answers on ge… ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. ... Let Culture and Nature Draw a Post-Colonial Map. Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town An Indigenous State in Chile .

Organisers hope the exhibition challenges Western perspectives of Africa, of slavery and colonial exploitation. It is using the Chinese map alongside South African rock art to illustrate the history ...

At times, colonial officers bought vast expanses of African territory, or in other instances, scouts simply staked a country’s flag in an African nation to claim it.

Known as the "Pink Map," this proposal ... 00:00 Portugal's 'Super Colony' Plan 00:20 Portugal as the First European Colonizer 00:59 African Colonies of Angola and Mozambique 02:04 British ...