South African History Online

Africa is the world’s second largest continent, both by size and number, after Asia. Its landmass holds 54 countries and nine territories. A central tenet of over a billion humans is that of being African, but where does the name Africa originate from?

After World War II, the process of decolonization of the African continent gathered momentum as Africans increasingly agitated for more political rights and independence.

The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963, was the culmination of a number of diverse and far-reaching historical currents and political trends both on the African continent and abroad.

In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not readily know.

The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and Mediterranean and Red Sea border kept foreigners and their ideas away.

Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. 

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting in many deaths.