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Bookmark or Share- The black civilisational contribution to North Africa, the Almovarid ...North Africa was fertile ground for religious movements for a long time with Kairouan being one of the most important scholarly cities of the Muslim world for a period and the Atlas mountain valleys being able to hide groups of religious dissadents who could also fade away down into the Anti-Atlas or deserts to the south and east.
- Bláland – Blámenn | History Forum'Bláland' is a term used by Viking Age Scandinavians to describe North Africa. Moors from North Africa and Spain, who were taken prisoner during Viking raids in the Mediterranean (859-62) and who finished up on the Dublin slave market were described as 'blue men' (Norse: blámenn, Irish: fir gorm).
- The difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan AfricaOne of the biggest differences to the eye of a non-African is the phenotype of the populations of the two parts of Africa. In North Africa people tend to have phenotypical affinities with Middle Easterners and Southern Europeans, whereas Sub-saharan Africans - although they tend to have a lot of diverse phenotypes - they generally tend to have ...
- Is the image of North Africa as a "lost" ancient bread basket a myth ...North Africa crop production and exports only recently declined. Algeria was France's bread basket too. Something happened between Independence and the present that hurt agricultural production that wasn't weather related or the depletion of the soil, the culture and demographics of the resident land owning farming class changed.
- Atrocities in north africa committed by the frenchthe colonial past of the french especially in north africa is still a matter of divergence , algerians accuse france to annihilate about 7 millions of algerians before 1954 ( the beginning of the algerian revolution and the battle for independence ). during the first years of the invasion after 1830, the french killed many and they even wiped ...
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