Some Herero and Mbanderu belong to christian and christian-inspired churches.

Herero is in Nambia, which is in the southern part of Africa.

In their language 'Zulu' means heaven

The Zulu kingdom grew as their King Shaka defeated tribes under his control. Though he helped Zulu in many ways, Shaka also was very harsh about people who lost battles, and killed his opponents. After Shaka's death the Zulus lost a lot to the whites / British.

Africa called the Kingdom of Swaziland. The Swazi system of government and many of their traditions were changed by the arrival of whites. An important resource in rural Swaziland is grass for thatched roofs.
In this picture King Sobhuza the second, seen here, led his country to independence.

He died in 1989 and was succeeded by King Mswati the third.

The Hausa people's language is classified as the Afro-Asiatic language.

No one is sure when the earliest history of Sonike was or when their kingdom of Ghana began. It a very old comunity, and their only clues come from Muslim Scholars, archeology, and some of their long-lasting traditions.

The people of Sonike gained wealth by mining gold. Today people still mine in Western Sudan, the same ways people did thousands of years ago.

The people of Sonike believed in many ghosts, even though the Islamic culture has "invaded" for such a long time.

The first inhabitants of Libya were Berber tribes. In the 7th century B.C. , Phoenicians colonized the eastern section of Libya, called Cyrenaica, and Greeks colonized the western portion, called Tripolitania. Tripolitania was for a time under Carthaginian control. It became part of the Roman Empire from 46 B.C. to A.D. 436, after which it was sacked by the Vandals. Cyrenaica belonged to the Roman Empire from the 1st century B.C. until its decline, after which it was invaded by Arab forces in 642. Beginning in the 16th century, both Tripolitania and Cyrenaica nominally became part of the Ottoman Empire.

Tripolitania was one of the outposts for the Barbary pirates who raided Mediterranean merchant ships or required them to pay tribute. In 1801, the pasha of Tripoli raised the price of tribute, which led to the Tripolitan war with the United States. When the peace treaty was signed on June 4, 1805, U.S. ships no longer had to pay tribute to Tripoli.

Following the outbreak of hostilities between Italy and Turkey in 1911, Italian troops occupied Tripoli. Libyans continued to fight the Italians until 1914, by which time Italy controlled most of the land. Italy formally united Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in 1934 as the colony of Libya.

Libya was the scene of much desert fighting during World War II. After the fall of Tripoli on Jan. 23, 1943, it came under Allied administration. In 1949, the UN voted that Libya should become independent, and in 1951 it became the United Kingdom of Libya. Oil was discovered in the impoverished country in 1958 and eventually transformed its economy.