Talk:Military history of Africa

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[edit] Just some area that could be covered

This is a massive topic. Notes to myself and others on some items that could be mentioned: Boer Wars, Carthaginians (and Phoenician settlement on north coast), Numidians, Lybians, military culture of the San and Khoikhoi, Nok military, kingdom of mali, post-colonial century military conflicts and revolutions (Ethiopia (eg Ogaden War), Somalia, Rwanda (Genocide etc) etc), nomadic raiding (Tuaregs and others), Bantu expansion, Vandals in 5th century after fall of Rome, African muslim conquests of Spain and southern Europe, African theatre in the Second World War - Rommel and El Alamein, Mau Mau rebellion, Zulu War against British, etc, etc, etc. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PocklingtonDan (talk • contribs) on 12 November 2006.

• Much of this now done by regions. IZAK 12:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dealing with African history by regions

Students of African history, politics and geography usually divide the study of this continent by regions because each region is unique in terms of its climate, peoples, cultures, and the influences of geography all which create speciall circumstances, much as the history and nature of Eastern Europe is far different to the history and nature of Western Europe, and similarly Southern Europe is far different to Northern Europe, just that in Africa there is far more of both territory and raw oceans. Likewise with the Americas, theere are good reasons to differentiate between North, South, and Central America. Doing things by region also avoids the arbitrary trap of imposing a POV value system of "pro" or "anti" this-that-and-the-other period, ideology, religion or whatever the bee in one one's bonnet may happen to be. IZAK 12:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)