I enjoyed reading it and the pictures were really great. I meet a doctor here on the Eastern Shore that was from Ghana they are very nice. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
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Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Share 0. Tweet 0. Pin 0. By Melanie Du Toit on. March 27, You may also enjoy. African Travel in November.
About the author. Melanie Du Toit. This was a fascinating read! Thanks for sharing. What a interesting history lesson, There is so much we dont know about Africia.
Thank-you so much for your comment, Brad! Fascinating and beautifully written, Melanie! Thanks for your kind words and for reading, Sam! If there are others let me know. It seems to me that in many cases a president has become so untrusting of his colleagues and peers, so removed from his people, so paranoid that the only people he can rely on are his own close family.
This in turn suggests that such presidents have not built institutions, mechanisms of continuity. Indeed they may have deliberately destroyed them to ensure they stay in power. That implies they care little for their country, only for their own power and status. Apres moi, le deluge. The model should be Switzerland. Current head of state: Eveline Widmer-Schumpf. Have you heard of her? A truly mature country runs itself without need of visionaries and bullies.
His legacy depends on what preparation he made for succession and continuity after 21 years in power. If the country remains peaceful and continues to grow, then Meles will have been a good leader. If it falls apart then he was not. One last story about Meles. He was only 57 when he died but he was lucky to have survived that long. In an interview in November when the war against the Mengistu regime was still raging, I asked him if he had been in combat. Instead of answering he took my hand and pressed it to his temple.
King Mswati III, who ascended the throne of his father since , reigns in Swaziland with absolute political and military authority. The political system is equally facing a trying time. Unemployment, clamp down on civil rights activists, are some other challenges facing the country.
In spite of all these, Swaziland has a beautiful landscape; a traditional culture that is the envy of others and apart from pockets of crime, the country remains largely peaceful. What more, the women are extraordinarily beautiful and the mighty king did amass close to fifteen to himself, with more to come in the future.
African sovereign monarchies have used this idea a great deal but would this be enough for the future? Join the conversation Share your thoughts.
Subscribe to premium. Culture History News February 12, at am. Credit: Luis Dafos. For sheer size, few states in African history can compare to the Songhai Empire.
Formed in the 15th century from some of the former regions of the Mali Empire, this West African kingdom was larger than Western Europe and comprised parts of a dozen modern day nations. The empire enjoyed a period of prosperity thanks to vigorous trade policies and a sophisticated bureaucratic system that separated its vast holdings into different provinces, each ruled by its own governor. While the Songhai Empire was once among the most powerful states in the world, it later crumbled in the late s after a period of civil war and internal strife left it open to an invasion by the Sultan of Morocco.
The great enclosure courtyard, Great Zimbabwe. One of the most impressive monuments in sub-Saharan Africa is the Great Zimbabwe, an imposing collection of stacked boulders, stone towers and defensive walls assembled from cut granite blocks. The rock citadel has long been the subject of myths and legends—it was once thought to be the residence of the Biblical Queen of Sheba—but historians now know it as the capital city of an indigenous empire that thrived in the region between the 13th and 15th centuries.
This kingdom ruled over a large chunk of modern day Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Though little is known about its history, the remains of artifacts such as Chinese pottery, Arabian glass and European textiles indicate that it was once a well-connected mercantile center.
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