For the history of the country, see History of South Africa.
Map of Southern Africa: Dark Green: Southern Africa (UN subregion)
Green: Geographic, including above
Light Green: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The history of Southern Africa has been divided into its prehistory, its ancient history, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and the post-colonial period, in which the current nations were formed. Southern Africa is bordered by Central Africa, East Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Sahara Desert. Colonial boundaries are reflected in the modern boundaries between contemporary Southern African states, cutting across ethnic and cultural lines, often dividing single ethnic groups between two or more states.
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SouthernAfrica is the southernmost region ofAfrica. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental...
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The historyofAfrica begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens)...
genetic historiesof North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and SouthernAfrica, as well as the recent origin of modern humans in Africa. The...
Prehistory of South Africa (and, inseparably, the wider region ofSouthernAfrica) lasts from the Middle Stone Age until the 17th century. SouthernAfrica was...
For the historyof the Jews in SouthernAfrica see: Historyof the Jews in Angola Historyof the Jews in Botswana Historyof the Jews in Eswatini (Swaziland)...
The military historyofAfrica is one of the oldest military histories in the world. Africa is a continent of many regions with diverse populations speaking...
African cuisine is a staple of the continent's culture, and its history is entwined with the story of the native people ofAfrica. The foods that native...
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and SouthernAfrica for stone and thatch/wood. Cinema ofAfrica covers both the history and present of the making or screening of films on the African continent...
prehistory ofSouthernAfrica spans from the earliest human presence in the region until the emergence of the Iron Age in SouthernAfrica. In 1,000,000...
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been found across West, Central, Eastern and SouthernAfrica. The historyof science and technology in Africa since then has, however, received relatively...
The Historyof West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period...
The historyof North Africa has been divided into its prehistory, its classical period, the arrival and spread of Islam, the colonial period, and finally...
nations were formed. East Africa is the eastern region ofAfrica, bordered by North Africa, Central Africa, SouthernAfrica, the Indian Ocean, and the...
Sahara Desert, can be considered as the southern boundary of North Africa. North Africa includes the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and the plazas de...
The Common Market for Eastern and SouthernAfrica (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia...
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Church ofSouthernAfrica, known until 2006 as the Church of the Province ofSouthernAfrica, is the province of the Anglican Communion in the southern part...
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that evidence of trade in luxury items like precious metals and shells across the entirety of the continent. African economic history often focuses on...
The SouthernAfrican wildcat (Felis lybica cafra) is an African wildcat subspecies native to Southern and Eastern Africa. In 2007, it was tentatively recognised...
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