
Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990 making today the 33rd year of Namibia’s existence as an independent state.
Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990 making today the 33rd year of Namibia’s existence as an independent state.
Mauritius was successively colonised by the Netherlands, France and Great Britain, and only became independent on 12 March 1968.
“The fortunes of these real people twinkle through the centuries to us in a remarkable historical feat of research and story-telling”
It tells the story of how 19-year-old Joseph went out to West Africa to assist an established merchant, returned home 11 years later a rich man and what he did next.
On 6th March 1957 Ghana became an independent country.
An African man who lived 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal.
The world’s oldest fully manufactured ornaments are ostrich eggshell beads.
Key ages of early H. sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans (image credit: Delson, 2019; Fig. 1)
Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile and is the largest tropical lake in the world.
“the discovery of the chemical components of beeswax in the pottery of the Nok people provides a unique window on this relationship, when all other sources of evidence are lacking.”” Prof Richard Evershed