Africa South of the Sahara, Northpark University - David W. Koeller

Chronology from Prehistory to 1950. Dr. Koeller is on the History Dept. faculty at North Park University, Chicago, Illinois. http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Africa/Africa.html

African Timelines

Chronology with descriptions for Ancient Africa, African Empires, African Slave Trade & European Imperialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Independence Africa, plus Sources for Further Study. Site by Cora Agatucci, Associate Professor of English, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon. http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

African Witchcraft

1995 to 1998. See her pages 3, 4, 5. From the Library of Witchcraft by Daria. http://witchcraft.simplenet.com/african1.html

British Broadcasting Company - Nigeria Timeline

Covers 1861 - April 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1067695.stm

British Broadcasting Company - World Service - Africa

Use the Search box to locate a history timeline and country profile for African countries. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/

British Broadcasting Company - The Story of Africa

"the history of the continent from an African perspective." "from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid" by major African historians (Jacob Ajayi, George Abungu, Director-General of the National Museums of Kenya and others). Includes audio of each segment of the BBC program. (Requires sound card, speaker or headphone). Each segment has a timeline, bibliography, useful links. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/

Burkina Faso

In French. Official Burkina Faso government site. Chronology covers 12000 BP (BC + 2000) - 1960. http://www.primature.gov.bf/histoire/gdates.htm#Entre

Carey, Brycchan - Slavery Chronology

A chronology of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, from the fifteenth century to the present day with details of the main historical and cultural events related to slavery. Dr. Carey is Lecturer in English Literature, Kingston University, U.K. [KF] http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono1.htm

[Central African Republic] Sangonet

In French. Site with a large section about the CAR, news, history, politics, society, has a chronology of the "Présence française en Oubangui-Chari (1800-1966)." Site based in Le Blanc Mesnil, France. http://www.sangonet.com/Centrafrique.html

Chronological References: Cabo Verde / Cape Verdean American

Twenty page chronology of Cape Verde, 1460-1997, by Raymond A. Almeida. Part of the Cape Verde Page maintained by Almeida and Richard Leary. http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/caboverde/cvchrono.html

Congonline - Chronology of DRC History

In French. 500 - 1960. From Afriq'Info a.s.b.l., Bruxelles, Belgium. http://www.congonline.com/Histoire/les.htm

Democratic Republic of Congo Assessment

Version 4 September 1999" prepared by the U. K. Immigration & Nationality Directorate, Home Office, Country Information and Policy Unit. 35 pages. Includes a history since independence and a chronology (1885 to August 1999). Part of AsylumLaw.org which helps individuals win asylum. [KF] http://www.asylumlaw.org/

Dutch Portuguese Colonial History

Dutch in South Africa, Portuguese language heritage in Africa, European forts in Ghana, Madagascar, Chronology of Portuguese possessions in Africa, Chronology of Dutch Possessions in Africa, the Dutch in Mauritius, bibliographies. Maintained by Marco Ramerini from Firenze, Italy. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/

Eritrea

Brief chronology from 1889 - June 2000. From the Paris newspaper, Le Monde diplomatique. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/13ethiopiabox

France. Bibliotheque nationale. Voyages en Afrique - Chronology

In French. "900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies issues des fonds de la Société de géographie." Access documents by type (books, journals, maps, photographs), geographic area, era. Part of the French national library's Gallica site. http://gallica.bnf.fr/VoyagesEnAfrique/

Contents include:

A Bibliography and a Chronology.

Goans in Africa - Kenya

16th century to 1963. From the Goa web site, based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. http://www.goacom.com/culture/history/timeafrica.html

Histoire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest

In French. Site created by historians from West African universities. Contents include un annuaire des historiens [with current research, publications, activities), news (conferences, publications, etc.), chronologies for West Africa and each of the countries covered: Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, Mali, Sénégal. Has historical maps from the book, Afrique Noire. Histoire et civilisations, edited by Elikia M'BOKOLO (Paris, Hatier, 2004 - right click and open separately for a larger map) and a bibliography on West African history. The web site has support from the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. [KF] http://www.histoire-afrique.org/

Internet African History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall

Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes the Black Athena Debate, human origins, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Islam in Africa, West African kingdoms, Great Zimbabwe, religion, the slave trade, excerpts from "Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African" (London, 1789),  David Livingstone, excerpt from Edward Morel's Black Man's Burden, 1903, Nkrumah, the "Loi-Cadre" of June 23, 1956, Jomo Kenyatta speech 1952, Arusha Declaration, 1967, speech by Kenneth Kaunda on African Development and Foreign Aid (1966), statements/speeches on Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence 1965, and more. Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. [KF] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

Kenyatta, Jomo - Chronology

Chronology of Jomo Kenyatta's life and thus part of Kenya's history (late 19th c. to 1978). Text is copyright by Newspread International, and is taken from the Kenya Factbook, 15th edition, 1997-1998. http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/government/kenyatta.html

[Liberia] PBS. Liberia's Civil War

Profile of Charles Taylor, articles from 1996 to 2003, video clips, article by Somini Sengupta, New York Times reporter. Essays and lessons for schools (The Story of Liberia, Liberia and the U.S., economic factors and U.S. foreign policy), a historical chronology, From PBS, the public television organization. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/liberia/index.html

Mariners Museum, Virginia - Age of Exploration

Exhibit designed for K-12. Timeline of exploration by Hanno, Ibn Battuta, Bartholemeu Dias, Prince Henry the Navigator http://www.mariner.org/age/index.html

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Timeline of Art History

The African Art section covers different regions (Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Guinea Coast, Southern Africa, Western & Central Sudan, Archaeology & Rock Art). Maps, bibliographies, timeline for the continent. Explanations of features in the works depicted. Covers pre-colonial African empires & kingdoms, Islam in Africa, Christianity in Ethiopia and the Kongo Kingdom, African leadership, women, Trade among European and African precolonial nations, etc. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Minorities at Risk

See the Sub-Saharan Africa table. Click on the ethnic group name to find a chronology. Dates vary. The project is based at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland. [KF] http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/

Mozambique History

300 A.D. to 1993. Site by Natalina Teixeira Monteiro, a CapeVerdian Ph.D. student at Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ). Part of her "Mozambique, Women in the Informal Economy." http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~nm5/Chronology.html

Senegal Chronology - Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV)

In French. 1959 - to date. http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/etat/chronologie/senegal.html

Senegal Online - History Chronology

Select History, then Key Dates. 2nd century to 2000. Site based in France. http://www.senegal-online.com/senega00E.htm

[Sierra Leone] Accord - "Paying the Price. The Sierra Leone Peace Process"

Full text of the Accord Special issue, No. 9. Includes documents (The Abidjan Agreement, Conakry Peace Plan, Lome Agreement), a Chronology, 1787-June 2000, profiles of key figures/organizations, maps, a bibliography with web sites. Published by Conciliation Resources, London, U.K. [KF] http://www.c-r.org/accord/accord9/index.htm

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - African Voices

Select History. Then each section has a timeline at the bottom of the screen. Covers human origins to the present. http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/

[Somalia] Chronology of Digil & Mirifle History of Somalia

Part of ArlaadiNet created by Somali Inter-Riverine Community Assoc., Bankstown, Australia. [KF] http://arlaadinet.com/D&MHistory/chronology_of_digil.htm

Republic of South Africa: A Chronology

200 A.D. to 1998. Part of the site for Post Imperial and Post Colonial Literature in English, by Sean O'Toole, a South African who studied English literature at the University of Witwatersrand between 1987-89. Based at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/sa/sachron.html

[South Africa] Luckhardt, Ken and Brenda Wall - "Organize or Starve: the History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions"

Full text of the print publication, (London : Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. 520 pp.) Includes a trade union chronology 1919-1963. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/congress/sactu/organsta00.html

South African History Online - Chronology

An NGO, people's history online, based in Sunnyside, South Africa. Has a History of Film in South Africa (including a chronology), a history classroom section, This Day in History, a chronology of South African history, topics (African independence, Black Consciousness, Black education, Gandhi, Paul Kruger, Umkhonto we Sizwe, passive resistance, the United Nations and apartheid, apartheid legislation, Nelson Mandela, HIV AIDS in South Africa, etc.). [KF] http://www.sahistory.org.za/

The Online Wall of Remembrance has biographies / photographs of anti-apartheid leaders, a list of banned people. "We are inviting you to help us with biographical details, letters, diaries, articles, photographs and reminiscences on those South Africans, people in your family communities people who played a leading role in the struggle."

Imbokodo - Womens' Struggle in South Africa has a women's chronology, biographies / photographs, historical account from 1828, profiles of women's organizations, women's issues, sources.

Dutch East India Company, Vereenigde Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC History: http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/voc/voc.htm

The Great Trek: http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/great-trek/great-trek1.htm

Organization Histories. The African National Congress, United Democratic Front (includes posters)

The Rand Rebellion of 1922: http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/randrevolt/rand-revolt.htm

Sharpeville, 21 March 1960: includes classroom topics. http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/sharpevill/menu.htm

June 16 - Youth Day, the Soweto Uprising: http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/june16/june16-frameset.htm

South African Wars: http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/anglo-boer-wars/anglo-boer-war1.htm

Treason Trial, 1956-1961: with brief biographies of the defendants. http://sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/treasonTrial/menu.htm

[Sudan] Lobban, Richard - Chronolgy of Ancient Nubia

Covers from 3-1.5 Million BP to 1504 AD. From the book, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Nubia, Scarecrow Press. To be pub. 2002. One can contact Dr. Lobban at: rlobban@ric.edu http://www.theNubian.net/chrnology.htm

Togo - Union des forces de changement, UFC

In French. 15th century to 1963 and 1963 to 1991. From an opposition Togolese party based in France. http://www.ufc-togo.com/analyse/t_historique.htm
http://www.ufc-togo.com/docu/t_document.htm

Yale University. Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

15th to 19th century timeline of slavery in the U.S. Part of the Lesson Plan for the Amistad Case from the Center. http://www.yale.edu/glc/curriculum/amistad/abolitionism.html

Print Sources

Author: Kalley, Jacqueline A. (Jacqueline Audrey)
Title: Southern African political history : a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 / compiled by Jacqueline A. Kalley, Elna Schoeman, and L.E. Andor ; assisted by Abdul Samed Bemath, Claire Kruger, and Beth Strachan ; foreword by Peter Vale.
Imprint: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Physical Description: xvii, 904 p. : map ; 25 cm.

Covers Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa (1961 + ), Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.