Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 8th Marquess of Fusignano was an Italian jurist and statesman.
Badme is a town in Gash-Barka region of Eritrea. Control of the town was at the centre of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict, which lasted from the beginning of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, in 1998, to the signing of a joint statement at the Eritrea–Ethiopia summit in 2018, twenty years later.
In World War II, French West Africa was not a major scene of major fighting. Only one large-scale action took place there: the Battle of Dakar. The region remained under the control of Vichy France after the fall of France and until the Allied invasion of North Africa. French Gabon, the only colony of French Equatorial Africa not to join Free France after the armistice, fell to invading Free French Forces from the neighbouring colonies after the Battle of Gabon, further isolating West Africa.
Kofi Anyidoho is a Ghanaian poet and academic who comes from a family tradition of Ewe poets and oral artists. He is currently Professor of Literature at the University of Ghana.
The Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO), known in English as the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, was established in Rome in 1995, as the result of the merging of Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East (IsMEO) with the Istituto Italo-Africano (IIA). It closed in 2012. Its museum collection is now overseen by the Polo Museale del Lazio.
The Società Geografica Italiana formed as a geographic society in 1867 in Florence, Italy, and moved to Rome in 1872. As of 1924 it operated from headquarters in Villa Mattei in the Celio rione. The society began publishing a journal in 1868, and also sponsored scientific expeditions, such as one to Ethiopia in 1876, led by Orazio Antinori. In 1892 its members were among the first participants of the triennial Congresso geografico italiano.
'La Belgika was a trading company that was active in the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo. It produced, processed and exported commodities such as rubber, palm oil and coffee, and imported basic goods needed by the local people, which it sold in a network of stores.
The National Museum of Utica is a museum dedicated to archeology in Tunisia located in Utica. The museum is dedicated to preserving important historical objects from the history of North African civilizations.
Giotto DainelliDolfi was an Italian geographer, geologist, paleontologist, traveller and writer. Dainelli travelled in Eritrea, Africa, and to the Himalayas. He was a supporter of Italian fascism but was not a signatory of the Manifesto of Race.
Mahbuba was an Oromo girl from present-day Ethiopia who was taken to Germany as a slave. She is known to have helped lay the foundations for the Oromo language studies in Europe by reciting her oral traditions through songs.
The Mendoub or Mandub was a key official in the governance of the Tangier International Zone between 1925 and 1956, with a wartime interruption from 1940 to 1945.
Hamid Ferej was born in Barka, Eritrea. He was a prominent figure in Eritrean politics. In the year 1956 he was elected to be the president of the Eritrean parliament. He was the president of the Eritrean parliament from the year 1956 to 1962.
Sheikh Ali Radai was a politician in Eritrea, playing an instrumental role in the early Eritrean political scene. Sheikh Ali Radai was the first president of the Eritrean parliament.
The Abdelhafid Palace or Moulay Hafid Palace is a historic structure at 23, rue Mohammed Ben Abedelouhab in the Hasnouna neighborhood of Tangier, Morocco. It was built in 1912–1913 as the intended main residence of former Sultan Abdelhafid following his abdication, but was never used for that purpose. In 1927, it was purchased by Italy and subsequently renamed Palazzo Littorio, hosting various public institutions including schools and a hospital. In 1943 the Badoglio government had it renamed Casa d'Italia, and a few years later it became known as the Palace of the Italian Institutions. Even though it still houses various Italian-related activities and was renovated in the early 2000s, it has long remained underutilized.
The Banu Khurman were a local tribe in Wadi Ajal and the Murzuq region in the Fezzan. They have also historically been referred to as "Qurmān", "Husmān", or “Khurmān". They have been identified by some writers as probable descendants of the Garamantes.
Gherardo Pantano was an Italian military officer and writer. He spent decades in Italy's African colonies and also fought on the Italian front during World War I.
Xaaji Maxamad Axmad Liibaan 'Axyaa Waddani' was a famous Somali poet.
Fritz Hintze was an Egyptologist, Nubiologist, and German archaeologist. He is the founder of Sudanese archaeology in Germany.
Ursula Hintze was a German archaeologist and Africanist. She was one of the first researchers to document the Kushite graffiti at Musawwarat es-Sufra. Her catalog of graffiti has been digitized since 2007.
