What you'll learn

Students will be able to learn about the reason why Africa was called the dark continent.

Students will learn about the activities of great explorers of Africa

Students will learn about the contents of the first map of Africa

Overall, students will learn about what Africa is to Europe from the perspectives of the age of exploration thus clearing some conspiracies about Europe

Requirements

Understanding of English language

Description

The continent Africa of course had never been a new discovery to Europe and other parts of the world (old world) Europeans traded, warred, and allied themselves with African kingdoms even before the days of the Bible or Quran but all this relationships were mostly with the Northern part of Africa and few of them, along the east Coast of Africa. This means despite knowing that the continent exists, there relationships with it has limits in terms of areas they relate with. As time goes on, the Europeans had to force there way into the continent and this had some implications.In this course, you will learn about the reasons why Europeans decided it's time to enter the interior of Africa, how they did it, and the implications of there activities in the continent.You'll also learn about other things like the names of Africa in it's history, explanation of the first map of Africa drawn by Munster Sebastian, learn about the works of explorers like John hanning speke, Mungo park, Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, e.t.c.This video sheds light on some popular matters going on on the Internet where Africans complain about some wrong things in history of age of exploration e.g claims that Mungo Park discovered river Niger, the fact that Africa was referred to as the "Dark Continent". I talked about how all this started and where things became faulty.…and yes research works and personal views are included.The course is graphically illustrated throughout, both with human drawn images and Ai illustrations.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Names of Africa

Lecture 2 How and why it was called it "The Dark Continent"

Section 2: Into the Dark Continent

Lecture 3 Inhibitions to the interior of Africa

Lecture 4 Why they entered Africa

Lecture 5 Travails of the Pathfinders (Hanning speke, David Livingstone and Mungo park)

Section 3: Aftermath of Europe penetration of Africa

Lecture 6 AMUSEMENTS PARK FROM AFRICA

Lecture 7 Colonial education still in Africa

Lecture 8 Renaming of geographical areas in Africa

Section 4: Misc

Lecture 9 Analysis of the first map of Africa drawn by Munster Sebastian

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