Asante empire, Asante also spelled Ashanti, West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extending from the...
After years of suffering under British colonial rule, Ghana, known as the Gold Coast, became the first African State to achieve independence in 1957. Ghana...
By the end of the nineteenth century, South Africa had been completely colonized by European Powers because it made a convenient port to supply ships...
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, (born March 15, 1809, Petersburg, Va., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1876, Monrovia, Liberia), American-born, first president of Liberia (1848–56). A native of Virginia,...
Swahili language, also called kiSwahili, or Kiswahili, Bantu language is spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on the east...
Rundi, the peoples of the Republic of Burundi, who speak Rundi, an Interlacustrine Bantu language. The Rundi is divided into two main ethnic groups: the...
Joseph Kabila, (born June 4, 1971, Sud-Kivu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo), an army official and politician who was president of the Democratic...
Hutu, also called Bahutu or Wahutu, Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi. Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast...
Bantu languages, a group of some 500 languages belonging to the Bantoid subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Bantu languages...