Category : International

The scramble for Africa, a British term coined in 1884, describes the more than twenty-year period when European powers explored, partitioned, and conquered nearly 90...

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 marked the climax of the European competition for territory in Africa, a process commonly known as the Scramble for Africa....

Mutesa II, in full Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa, (born Nov. 19, 1924—died Nov. 21, 1969, London, Eng.), kabaka (ruler) of...

Milton Obote, in full Apollo Milton Obote, (born December 28, 1924, Akoroko village, Lango, Uganda—died October 10, 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa), a politician who was...

Idi Amin, in full Idi Amin Dada Oumee, (born 1924/25, Koboko, Uganda—died August 16, 2003, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia), military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda...

Entebbe Raid, (July 3–4, 1976), rescued by an Israeli commando squad of 103 hostages from a French jet airliner hijacked en route from Israel to...

Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost...

African Union (AU), formerly (1963–2002) Organization of African Unity, intergovernmental organization, established in 2002, to promote unity and solidarity of African states, to spur economic...

Apartheid was a system of institutional racial segregation and discrimination that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was a policy...