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The Gola or Gula are a West African ethnic group who share a common cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western or northwestern Liberia and eastern Sierra Leone.
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The medieval history of the Sahel is characterized by the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire.
The earliest of these was the Ghana Empire, which was dominated by the Soninke, whose progenitor is believed to have been Dinga Cissé.
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Nimrod, the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and therefore the great-grandson of Noah was an African king ruling the land of Shinar near the Tigris and Euphrates River.
The beginning of his kingdom was in Babylonia, and afterwards went into Assyria, and founded Nineveh and other cities.
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The Hutus are a Bantu ethnic group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda.
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Pharaoh Taharqa’s army defeated the Assyrians at the Battle of Eltekeh, freeing the Kingdom of Judah and much of the Levant from Assyrian control.
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Yorubaland is the cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. The history of Nigeria can be traced to African empires such as the Kanem–Bornu, which originated in parts of present-day Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad.
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The area of present-day Niger saw the rise and fall of empires such as the of Songhai, Mali, Gao, Kanem Bornu, as well as a number of Hausa States.
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The earliest Namibians were the hunter-gatherer San Bushmen. The first three sons of Ham (Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan) are traditionally seen as the ancestors of African peoples.
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The first inhabitants of what is now Mozambique were the San hunters and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisan peoples. By about 900 AD trading links had been forged with India, Persia, China and the Arab world.
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The earliest known independent Moroccan state was the Berber kingdom of Mauretania, under King Baga, an Amazigh king (c. 225 BC). The area was inhabited by indigenous Berbers for some two thousand years before that.
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The history of Mauritius begins with its discovery by Austronesians under the Austronesian expansion circa 1500 to 1000 BC.
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Mauritania is a mainly desert country spanning the Maghreb of North Africa and the western sub-Saharan Africa. The native Berbers, known as Amazigh or Imazighen, have occupied North Africa for thousands of years.
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Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other precious commodities, and slaves (Ghana Empire, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire).
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The present-day name "Maláŵi" is said to derive from the Chewa word malaŵí. The hunter-gatherer San are are thought to be descended from the first inhabitants in South Africa.
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Over the past two thousand years Madagascar has received waves of settlers of diverse origins including Austronesian, Bantu, Arab, South Asian, Chinese, and European.
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The ancestors of the Berber people, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are assumed to have spread into the area from at least 10,000 BC. Libyan tribes referred to them as the Temehu, Tehenu, and Meshwesh... stated to be the descendants of "Buyuwawa the Libyan."
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Liberia was the first African republic to proclaim its independence. In the United States, there was a movement to settle African Americans, both free-born and formerly enslaved to Liberia.
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Lesotho emerged as a single polity in 1822. It was originally inhabited by local tribes of hunter-gatherers called the Khoisan.
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Early inhabitants of present-day Kenya were hunter-gatherer groups, akin to the modern Khoisan speakers.
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The first Jamaicans were the Taino Indians who settled in Jamaica around 600 AD. Some fled into interior regions, merging with African Maroon communities when the English took control of the island in 1655.
