The offbeat African island that German tourists love, but Britons have yet to discover
The mid-morning scene around the enormous sun-trap courtyard at the Radisson Blu Palace Resort & Thalasso is unremarkable in ...
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never subject to one wide, sweeping Muslim takeover. Islam came to the East African coast in many waves and at different times. There is no single date ...
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Skills and Tools
the knowledge of iron working may have come from the Phoenicians who in 800 BC founded the colony of Carthage on the North African coast. The skills may have crossed the Sahara desert with the ...
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast by Mark, one of the ...