https://vividmaps.com/the-history-of-africa-every-year/ Maps that explain the World Sat, 09 May 2020 20:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://vividmaps.com/the-history-of-africa-every-year/#comment-1701 Sat, 09 May 2020 20:35:02 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/2016/10/21/the-history-of-africa-every-year/#comment-1701 Impressive though this project obviously is, I’m sorry but it’s been mis-titled. It is not really “the history of Africa”, it’s simply a record of when western Europeans “discovered” (and then made a record of) particular parts of it. To say otherwise implies that no ‘history’ was ongoing in the vast swaths of the continent shown in white on your map. Or are you saying those regions remained uninhabited before the date they magically acquired a name and their history only started from that date? As you know, history can be verbal too.

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