Discover how Tuareg and Berber peoples from northern Africa helped spread Islam throughout West Africa. Incudes a map of important trade routes.

Describes the spread of Islam through Africa after the death of the Prophet Muhammed. Notes how Islam served to facilitate trade and literacy.

Cora Agatucci of Central Oregon Community College offers a descriptive time-line for the period between the first century to the fifteenth.

Find a variety of resources devoted to the dissemination of the Christianity in Africa. Includes reports dating back to the 19th century.

Univ. of Iowa's Prof. James Giblin discusses the conditions that inspired the people of Asante, Benin, Luba, Kuba, and Yoruba to form alliances.

Features brief profiles of Africa's 23 most influential or popular kings and queens. Includes colorful drawings of each figure.

Details sub-Saharan Africa's early introduction to steel working and the eventual spread of iron smelting. Notes the influence of Bantu peoples.

Learn when this West African state was founded and when it flourished.

Details the Sunni empire in what is now Northwestern Nigeria. Also describes the Askia dynasty.

Notable African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. offers a detailed history of Africa's most prominent kingdoms and civilizations.