Studying Family Structure. The study of the family from an historically informed perspective is a challenging exercise. Indeed, concepts of the social unit known as the family have varied widely from ...
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Historiographical Context. Western-influenced scholars often divide West African history into "precolonial," "colonial," and "postcolonial" periods. Others divide it into "traditional" and "modern" er...
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Independent and Interdependent. The circumstances that affected the state of science, technology, and health before and during the period 500 to 1590 C.E. in West Africa include both independent and i...
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Circa 4 Million-1 Million B.C.E.
Circa 1.5 Million-200,000 B.C.E.
Circa 1,000,000-10,000 B.C.E.
Circa 250,000 B.C.E.
Circa 40,000 B.C.E.
Circa 8000 B.C.E.
5000 B.C.E.
Circa 4000-3500 B.C.E.
Circa 300...
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West African History. The recorded history of West Africa is largely devoted to powerful empires and the deeds of their rulers. Little of the information in these sources is directly related to the ev...
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Contemporary Icons. Popularized by Africanists and African historians since the 1960s as a sequential triad of trade-based empires, ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai have become icons of African histor...
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The "Bright Age." While Europe was going through the Dark Ages and Middle Ages and then entering its Renaissance, West Africa was in its "Bright Age." The thriving kingdom of Ghana, founded near the S...
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Geographical Challenges. To maintain itself and benefit its constituency, a successful state system has to overcome challenges from its natural geography over a sustained period of time. An understand...
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DAKAR, Oct 31 (Reuters) - West Africa is sticking by its
demand for an extended World Trade Organisation waiver for trade
with Europe, a top regional adviser said on Wednesday, rejecting
an EU cal...
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ACCRA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - West Africa's ECOWAS bloc says
member states can do last-ditch deals with Europe to avoid
disrupting exports in 2008, but warned they shouldn't sign
broader economic acco...
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In one of this city's relatively posh neighborhoods, there is a compound full of specialists.Some who work within the high-walled enclosure are experts in crushing cocaine bars and tying the powder...
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Abuja (dpa) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua said in Abuja
Monday that the country would continue to play a bigger leading role
in promoting peace and political stability...
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Madrid (dpa) - More than 50 would-be migrants are feared to have
died off West Africa when attempting to reach Europe by boat, Spanish
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalc...
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DAKAR, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A French navy warship has
intercepted a Liberian-flagged fishing vessel carrying 2.5
tonnes of cocaine in waters off the West African coast, a United
Nations anti-narcoti...
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West African Kingdoms 500-1590: Family and Social Trends
INTERVIEW-West Africa sticks to guns on EU trade deal
