The establishment of Mandinka as an empire is an interesting history of a pure African entity that emerged as a result of both situational and agent factors. The context out of which the state emerged was characterized by internal challenges.
Samouri Toure and the Mandinka empire
The Maji Maji Uprising of 1905-7 was a post pacification primary resistance. This means the Africans in Tanganyika were resisting an already established……….
Zimbabwean History: The Great Zimbabwe state
The highlights of this period are the abolition of the monarchy, the execution of Louis XVI, the intensification of the war with the formation of the First Coalition and the 1793 constitution. Most of the period, however, is dominated by the Reign of Terror. This is an important part of the syllabus and candidates are expected to undertake an in depth study of it.
The History syllabus covers the last two years of secondary education (Forms 5 and 6). It builds on the Forms The History syllabus covers the last two years of secondary education (Forms 5 and 6).
There is a great veracity in the verdict that the coming in of the Portuguese into the Mutapa State catalysed the state’s demise which was already underway. The Portuguese meddled with the politics of the Mutapa state, subortaged Mutapa state’s economy as well as stirred up disunity among the inhabitants of the Mutapa state thereby necessitating the decline of the state. On the contrary, the rise of a bigger and stronger Rozvi Empire, exhaustion of natural resources, rise of diseases as well as decline in trade had a great bearing on the demise of the Mutapa State.
The Rozvi state
At this moment when the French were in pursuit Samori was in conflict again with Tieba of Sikasso. In 1886 Samori signed the treaty of Bisandugu with the French. Under its terms he gave up all his territory north of the river Niger. In return the French would respect Samori’s empire south of the Niger. […]
The smooth move from illegitimate to legitimate trade by states such as Opobo, Itsikiriland and Calar, better known as Niger Delta City states owes multiple factors. The factors behind include but are not limited to; presence of technocratic leadership, accessibility, availability of favourable climatic conditions and rich soils. This paper seeks to give the reasons behind the success of the Niger Delta states in making a smooth transition to legitimate trade.