Epic World History

Averroës statue in Cordoba, Spain Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, Ibn Rushd for short, or Averroës, as he is known to the Wes...

Al-Azhar The Fatimids established al-Azhar, one of the oldest universities in the world, in Cairo in 970. Built around a large mosque w...

kingdom of Benin Extending at its peak from the Niger River in the east to the port of Lagos on the western coast, Benin was a dynastic ...

Bantu village The Bantu people of the African continent include some 400 different ethnic groups that cover most of sub-Saharan Africa a...

Tariq ibn al-Ziyad, a berber commander The Berbers are the earliest known inhabitants of northwestern Africa’s Mediterranean coast, pla...

East African City-states The Bantu migration from the central Sahara, perhaps the defining event in the history of Africa south of the ...