![]() ![]() 45).įor example, the highly centralized polities of Bunyoro and Buganda, located to the north of Lake Victoria, were the result of migrations, beginning in about the sixteenth century, of Lwo-speaking peoples originating in the territories around the banks of the Nile in the southern Sudan. “Most African states were the product of an indigenous evolution” (Brathwite 1988, p. The process of African state formation, of course, was not limited to areas having commercial and other relationships with the Muslim worlds of North Africa and southwestern Asia. Furthermore, well before this period there certainly were long centuries of intercourse between the peoples inhabiting the northern. First Europeans, Greeks, Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples came to Africa as traders, settlers, and conquerors to intrude their cultural patterns among African mores as early as the last 1,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. ![]()
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