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Descrambling Africa
Welcome to Descrambling Africa — a publicationdedicated to telling the colourful history of the African continent and its people.
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02| Trip Down Memory Lane — The Ottoman Age
02| Trip Down Memory Lane — The Ottoman Age
Trouble had been brewing between the Ottomans and the Mamluks for sometime now. Their longstanding rivalries over Eastern Anatolia as well…
Andrew Muriga
Jan 27, 2018
01| Trip Down Memory Lane — The Mamluk Years
01| Trip Down Memory Lane — The Mamluk Years
The year is 1791 and another plague has just swept over Cairo, the capital of the Egyptian Ottoman Province. The deadly plague has carried…
Andrew Muriga
Jan 14, 2018
The Egyptian Experience — Overview
The Egyptian Experience — Overview
We begin the story of change in Africa during the 19th Century on the continent by looking at the galvanization of state control under…
Andrew Muriga
Jan 13, 2018
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