Umbrella term for some pre-colonial African kingdoms
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Diachronic map of pre-colonial African kingdoms
See also: List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history
African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonial African kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures incorporating various populations and polities into a single entity, usually through conquest.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Listed below are known African empires and their respective capital cities.
^Cultural Atlas of Africa, pp. 48 (Dr. Jocelyn Murray, 1998)
^Guide to African history. pp.9 (1971, by Basil Davidson)
^Mwakikagile, page 206
^Writing African History pp. 303 (2007, ed John Edward Philips, art Dr Isaac Olawale Albert)
^African empires and civilizations: ancient and medieval (1992, by George O Cox)
^African glory: the story of vanished Negro civilizations pp. 77, (Prof. John Coleman De Graft-Johnson, 1954)
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