What african country bar egypt has the best ancient history?

>>2254230
Gabon, obviously.

>>2254230
Tunis

>>2254230
Kenya for being the cradle of mankind.
Tunis for Carthage.
Algeria for the Jugurthine War.

Sorry for the Euro-centrism but what can I say, I like my Romans.

>>2254887
>Kenya

I thought the oldest humans were in Ethiopia?

>>2254230
Only Egypt and Ethiopia have history, the rest have nothing worth writing about

>>2254230
Tunis (Carthage) obviously

>>2254887
Tunis was a Semitic Phoenician colony, hence why you can even see in the name origin similarity to Arabic

Qar Dhaj = Qarya Jadida = new village

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>>2254230
Tunis, Morocco, Algeria, Libya

Whatever non sub Saharans

South Africa, Morroco and Algeria. Angola is interesting for the civil war and Rhodesia Zimbabwe for the Bush War, but thats about it.

>>2255063
And Ethiopia of course.

>>2254230
>Those Flag
I puked

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

>>2255077
Why though?
They're mostly decent.

Angola.
We wuz Kongo n shiet.

>>2254230
Rhodesia.. South Africa.. other places..

>>2254230
Morocco

>>2254230
Benin and Morocco

>>2254875
This.

>>2254230
The kong empire

>>2254230
Everywhere where the phoenicians were.

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>>2254230
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

>>2254230
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.

>>2254230
Tunis(Carthage)

Not even close.

>>2256793
I didn't know they had a massive parthenon at the back, why do they only show pictures of that tiny cube church

>>2257548
>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.

https://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

https://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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garima_Gospels

>>2254230
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.

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Not ancient, but still interesting.

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>>2254230
Cameroon

>>2257939
The king that made that is really cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Njoya

If only he had been around earlier in the history

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>>2257558
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.

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>>2257851
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.

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>>2257951
They also had really comfy architecture.

>>2258039
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.

>>2258085
I meant written language not language itself

>>2257874
This shit's why Africa is objectively the best continent.

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

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>>2257548
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?

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Sudan

>>2257548
Is this a valid excuse to get the history wrong?

>>2254230
ethiopian kangz

>>2254230
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia