What african country bar egypt has the best ancient history?

And Ethiopia of course.

>Those Flag
I puked

Somalia. Bit hard to do archaeology in the area today though!

Why though?
They're mostly decent.

Angola.
We wuz Kongo n shiet.

Rhodesia.. South Africa.. other places..

Morocco

Benin and Morocco

This.

The kong empire

Everywhere where the phoenicians were.

In no real order, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan. Nigeria is a runner up.

Somalia, Mali, Algeria and Kenya/Tanzania are good too.

Zimbabwe, Ghana and Angola are okay.

How far is ancient?

I'd say Tunisian, Eritrea/Northern Ethiopia, Northern Sudan.

Punt land might count as Somalia so thats cool I guess

Ethiopia.

A kingdom, an empire, an execption, and the bane of all pasta

Africa was prehistorical until foreigners showed up.
no written languages=no records=no history
if you disagree retake 6th grade history.
and obviously we're excluded Mediterranean africa.

Tunis(Carthage)

Not even close.

I didn't know they had a massive parthenon at the back, why do they only show pictures of that tiny cube church

>Africa was prehistorical until foreigners showed up.
>no written languages=no records=no history
>if you disagree retake 6th grade history.
>and obviously we're excluded Mediterranean africa.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge'ez_language#History_and_literature

>inb4 Arabs brought it

>The Ge'ez language is no longer universally thought of, as previously assumed, to be an offshoot of Sabaean or Old South Arabian, and there is some linguistic (though not written) evidence of Semitic languages being spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia since approximately 2000 BC

and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_alphabet

Thats why we have documents from Nubia and Aksum

The oldest Christian manuscript with pictures is from Ethiopia written in Geez

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garima_Gospels

Kenya/Tanganyika. They play an extremely important role in the history of the Indian Ocean which means they're extremely important for the Middle East, Persia and India and thus the world. I don't think any other region can quite compete.

Not ancient, but still interesting.

Cameroon

The king that made that is really cool

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Njoya

If only he had been around earlier in the history

UNESCO built a big metal frame over it to protect it from the rain, so it's hard to get a good photo anymore. Pic related is from before they put it up.

The small one is in much better condition and easy to photograph. There are also a bunch of other ones, though they vary in condition, and even more scattered throughout the country.

I wouldn't even both replying to that bait.

But, Arabians did bring writing to Ethiopia. That article is about the language, not the writing. Ge'ez writing was developed in Aksum from the earlier Sabaean script introduced centuries before.

Keep in mind that every script used today outside of East Asia is derived from a common Egyptian ancestor. Ge'ez is actually unique as the only still-used script derived from Egyptian but not Phoenician.

They also had really comfy architecture.

Yeah language as we know it came from like 5 sources

Sumerian, Egyptian, Harappan, Mayan and Chinese I believe

Everything else borrows from these

But it did develop into a distinct Abugida style script. I was pointing out that the language attached to it was independent.

I meant written language not language itself

This shit's why Africa is objectively the best continent.

/pol/ has it all backwards. The shit is what MAKES it good.

You do know that archeological evidence counts right? So does oral history. For written documentation, there's guys like Ibn Batuta and Ibn Khaldun. How about artifacts? Why do the rules suddenly change when negroes are involved?

Sudan

Is this a valid excuse to get the history wrong?

ethiopian kangz

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia