Africa, the second-largest and second-most-populous continent globally, comprises 54 countries, each with its unique culture, ...

Once in North Africa, Christianity spread slowly West from Alexandria and East to Ethiopia ... with the arrival of the Portuguese. In the South of the continent the Dutch founded the beginnings ...

Gold was the main commodity sought by the North ... Early Arabic sources for West African History, edited by Levtzion and Hopkins. After Zawila, carrying on directly South, traders eventually ...