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African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.It has differentiated itself from other continental areas of historiography due to its multidisciplinary nature, as Africa's unique and varied methods of recording history have resulted in a lack of an established set of historical works ...
Mauritius Time. a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland. b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. Mauritius Time, or MUT, is the time zone used by the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius. The zone is four hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+04:00 ).
Time in Algeria. a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland. b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. Algeria Standard Time or DPRA Standard Time is the time zone for Algeria. [1] It is 1 hour ahead of GMT / UTC ( UTC+01:00) and is co-linear with neighboring Tunisia .
The German West African Company, in German Deutsch-Westafrikanische Gesellschaft / Compagnie, was a German chartered company, founded in 1885. It exploited the two German protectorates in German West Africa ( Togo and Cameroon ) but did not actually govern them — unlike its counterpart in German East Africa .
At K=9, distinct ancestral components defined the Afroasiatic-speaking populations inhabiting North Africa and Northeast Africa; the Nilo-Saharan-speaking populations in Northeast Africa and East Africa; the Ari populations in Northeast Africa; the Niger-Congo-speaking populations in West-Central Africa, West Africa, East Africa, and Southern ...
West Africa is the portion roughly west of 10° east longitude, excluding Northern Africa and the Maghreb. West Africa contains large portions of the Sahara Desert and the Adamawa Mountains. East Africa stretches from the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa to Mozambique, including Madagascar.
The population history of West Africa is composed of West African populations that were considerably mobile and interacted with one another throughout the history of West Africa. Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [3]
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...