We wrap up our whirlwind tour of African Empires this week with the later part of the timeline. Anna and Amber travel to Timbuktu, the Solomonid Empire, the Fatimid Caliphate and more! We also cover the Scramble for Africa, which sounds fun and madcap, but is... the opposite of that.

We wrap up our whirlwind tour of African Empires this week with the later part of the timeline. Anna and Amber travel to Timbuktu, the Solomonid Empire, the Fatimid Caliphate and more! We also cover the Scramble for Africa, which sounds fun and madcap, but is...the opposite of that.

To learn more, check out:

Fatimids in Encyclopedia Iranica

The Art of the Fatimid Period (909–1171) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Songhai Empire (Ancient History Encyclopedia)

The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Leo Africanus's Geographical History of Africa at The British Library

Kongo (University of Iowa)

The Origins and Early History of the Kingdom of Kongo, c. 1350-1550 (The International Journal of African Historical Studies)

Solomonid Dynasty (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Matapa (Encyclopedia Britannica)

The Mutapa and the Portuguese: archaeometallurgy and regional interaction in southern Africa (Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Past, via ResearchGate)

"Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent" (Critical Inquiry)