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North Africa
North Africa; Virginmartyr Julia of Carthage, Commemorated on July 16 ; Apostle Epenetus of the Seventy, Commemorated July 30 ; 7 Holy Maccabee Martyrs, Commemorated on August 1; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430) ; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; Martyr Mertius of Mauretania, Commemorated January 12 ; St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated January 21 ; St Paulinus the Merciful the Bishop of Nola, Commemorated on January 23 ; THOMAS AQUINAS, PRIEST, FRIAR, AND THEOLOGIAN (28 JAN 1274) ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); Martyr Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman, and Her Sons, Commemorated on March 20; Venerable Mary of Egypt, Commemorated on April 1; Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage, Commemorated on April 10; PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, SCIENTIST AND MILITARY CHAPLAIN, 1955, Commemorated April 10 ; GEORGE, SOLDIER and MARTYR, 23 APRIL 303, Commemorated April 23; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25; MONNICA, MOTHER OF AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (4 MAY 387); St Monica, Commemorated on May 4; GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (9 MAY 389); Martyr Alexander of Rome, Commemorated on May 13; St Cyril the Archbishop of Alexandria, Commemorated on June 9 ; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936, Commemorated June 13 ; St Augustine the Bishop of Hippo, Commemorated on June 15 ; Hieromartyr Theodore the Bishop of Cyrene in Libya, Commemorated July 4 ;

Africa, North Africa, 146 BC - 429 AD, Roman province
Africa (Roman province); 7 Holy Maccabee Martyrs, Commemorated on August 1; Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated on August 13; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; St Peter the Tax-Collector, Commemorated on September 22; Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23; St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ; Venerable Melania the Younger of Rome, Commemorated on December 31 ; Apostle Mark the Evangelist of the Seventy, Commemorated January 4 ; St Paulinus the Merciful the Bishop of Nola, Commemorated on January 23 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage, Commemorated on April 10; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25; St Monica, Commemorated on May 4; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936; The Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, Commemorated on June 29 ;

Africa, North Africa, 429 - 643, Vandal Kingdom, Hippo and Carthage
North Africa, 429-534, Vandal Kingdom in North Africa; Africa (Roman province); 7 Holy Maccabee Martyrs, Commemorated on August 1; Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated on August 13; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; St Peter the Tax-Collector, Commemorated on September 22; Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23; St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ; Venerable Melania the Younger of Rome, Commemorated on December 31 ; Apostle Mark the Evangelist of the Seventy, Commemorated January 4 ; St Paulinus the Merciful the Bishop of Nola, Commemorated on January 23 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage, Commemorated on April 10; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25; St Monica, Commemorated on May 4; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936; The Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, Commemorated on June 29 ;

Africa, North Africa, 643-1581, Medieval Arabic Africa
Similar to the Roman Province Africa, Africa (Medieval Arabic Africa); Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23 ; St Justinian the Emperor, Commemorated on November 14 ; St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ; 62 Martyred Priests of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated December 8 ; 300 Martyred laypeople of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated December 8; St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated January 21 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936;

Africa, North Africa 146 BC-1581AD, Folder

Africa, North Africa, 146BC - 429AD, Roman Province

Africa, North Africa, 000, 1st Century Folder, Ephenetus of Carthage

Africa, North Africa, 30-64, Ephenetus, from Achaia, bishof of Carthage
Africa, North Africa, 30-64, Ephenetus, from Achaia, bishof of Carthage; or Epaentus is a saint in the Greek Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, considered one of the seventy disciples and may have been the first Bishop of Carthage or Cartagena. In the 16th chapter of St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Epenetus is referred to by Saint Paul as "my beloved" and given the great distinction of being named the "first convert in the Province of Asia".[2] Epaentus was a convert to Christianity in Ephesus. In the lists of the seventy disciples by the Pseudo-Dorotheus and Pseudo-Hippolytus, Epaenetus figures as Bishop of Carthage or Cartagena.[3] The Greek Orthodox Church remembers Epenetus on January 4[4] among the Seventy, and on July 30 with Apostles Silas and Silvanus, Crescens, and Andronicus.[3] Carthage; Carthagian Empire; Apostle Epenetus of the Seventy, Commemorated on July 30; Holy Apostle of the Seventy Epenetus was a disciple of the Savior. Holy Apostle Epenetus was made bishop at Carthage. In his Epistle to the Romans, the holy Apostle Paul writes: “Greet my dear Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ” (Rom. 16:5).

Africa, North Africa, 100, 2nd Century Folder, Tertullian

Africa, North Africa, 175-240, Tertullian, Christian Author, Latin, Western Theology, not saint
Africa, North Africa, 175-240, Christian Author, Tertullian; (c. 155 AD - c. 220 AD)[1] was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.[2] He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism.[3] Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity"[4][5] and "the founder of Western theology."[6] originated new theological concepts and advanced the development of early Church doctrine. He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity (Latin: trinitas). was never recognized as a saint by the Eastern or Western Catholic churches. Several of his teachings on issues such as the clear subordination of the Son and Spirit to the Father,[7][8] as well as his condemnation of remarriage for widows and of fleeing from persecution, contradict the doctrines of these traditions, and his later rejection of orthodoxy for Montanism has led these communions to refrain from considering him a Church father, important ecclesiastical writer though he was. Africa, North Africa, 220-258, Saint, Cyprian; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31;

Africa, North Africa, 200, 3rd Century Folder, Cyprian

Africa, North Africa, 220-258, Saint, Cyprian, true life, apostles faith, virtue foundation of Love
Africa, North Africa, 220-258, Saint, Cyprian; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31; Saint Cyprian was finally baptized, he wrote in the Treatise To Donatus: “When the water of regeneration cleansed the impurity of my former life, a light from on high shone into my heart... and the Spirit transformed me into a new man by a second birth. Then at once, in a miraculous manner, certainty replaced doubt, mysteries were revealed, and darkness became light.... Then it was possible to acknowledge that what was born of the flesh and lived for sin was earthly, but what the Holy Spirit had vivified began to be of God.... In God and from God is all our strength.... Through Him we, while living upon the earth, have a hint of future bliss.” Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, was born in about the year 200 in the city of Carthage (Northern Africa), where all his life and work took place. Thascius Cyprianus was the son of a rich pagan senator, and received a fine secular education becoming a splendid orator, and a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in the school of Carthage. He often appeared in the courts to defend his fellow citizens. afterwards recalled that for a long time “he remained in a deep dark mist.., far from the light of Truth.” His fortune, received from his parents and from his work, was spent on sumptuous banquets, but they were not able to quench in him the thirst for truth. He became acquainted with the writings of the Apologist Tertullian, and became convinced of the truth of Christianity. The holy bishop later wrote that he thought it was impossible for him to attain to the regeneration promised by the Savior, because of his habits. was helped by his friend and guide, the presbyter Cecilius, who assured him of the power of God’s grace. At 46 years of age the studious pagan was received into the Christian community as a catechumen. Before accepting Baptism, he distributed his property to the poor and moved into the house of the presbyter Cecilius. Saint Cyprian was finally baptized, he wrote in the Treatise To Donatus: “When the water of regeneration cleansed the impurity of my former life, a light from on high shone into my heart... and the Spirit transformed me into a new man by a second birth. Then at once, in a miraculous manner, certainty replaced doubt, mysteries were revealed, and darkness became light.... Then it was possible to acknowledge that what was born of the flesh and lived for sin was earthly, but what the Holy Spirit had vivified began to be of God.... In God and from God is all our strength.... Through Him we, while living upon the earth, have a hint of future bliss.” years after his Baptism, the saint was ordained to the priesthood. When Bishop Donatus of Carthage died, Saint Cyprian was unanimously chosen as bishop. He gave his consent, having complied with his guide’s request, and was consecrated Bishop of Carthage in the year 248. saint first of all concerned himself about the welfare of the Church and the eradication of vices among the clergy and flock. The saintly life of the archpastor evoked in everyone a desire to imitate his piety, humility and wisdom. The fruitful activity of Saint Cyprian became known beyond the bounds of his diocese. Bishops from other sees often turned to him for advice on how to deal with various matters. persecution by the emperor Decius (249-251), revealed to the saint in a vision, forced him to go into hiding. His life was necessary to his flock for the strengthening of faith and courage among the persecuted. Before his departure from his diocese, the saint distributed the church funds among all the clergy for the aid of the needy, and in addition he sent further funds. kept in constant touch with the Carthaginian Christians through his epistles, and he wrote letters to presbyters, confessors and martyrs. Some Christians, broken by torture, offered sacrifice to the pagan gods. These lapsed Christians appealed to the confessors, asking to give them what is called a letter of reconciliation, i.e. a certificate for accepting them back into the Church. Saint Cyprian wrote a general letter to all the Carthaginian Christians, stating that those who lapsed during a time of persecution might be admitted into the Church, but this must be preceded by an investigation of the circumstances under which the falling away came about. It was necessary to determine the sincerity of contrition of the lapsed. To admit them was possible only after penance, and with the permission of the bishop. Some of the lapsed insistently demanded their immediate re-admittance into the Church and caused unrest in the whole community. Saint Cyprian wrote the bishops of other dioceses asking their opinion, and from all he received full approval of his directives. his absence the saint authorized four priests to examine the lives of persons preparing for ordination to the priesthood and the deaconate. This met with resistance from the layman Felicissimus and the presbyter Novatus, roused to indignation against their bishop. Saint Cyprian excommunicated Felicissimus and six of his followers. In his letter to the flock, the saint touchingly admonished all not to separate themselves from the unity of the Church, to be subject to the lawful commands of the bishop and to await his return. This letter kept the majority of Carthaginian Christians faithful to the Church. a short while, Saint Cyprian returned to his flock. The insubordination of Felicissimus was put to an end at a local Council in the year 251. This Council decreed that it was possible to receive the lapsed back into the Church after a penance, and it affirmed the excommunication of Felicissimus. this time there occurred a new schism, led by the Roman presbyter Novatian, and joined by the Carthaginian presbyter Novatus, a former adherent of Felicissimus. Novatian asserted that those who lapsed during a time of persecution could not be readmitted, even if they repented of their sin. Besides this, Novatian with the help of Novatus convinced three Italian bishops during the lifetime of the lawful Roman bishop Celerinus to place another bishop on the Roman cathedra. Against such iniquity, Saint Cyprian wrote a series of encyclicals to the African bishops, and later a whole book, On the Unity of the Church. the discord in the Carthage church began to quiet down, a new calamity began: a pestilential plague flared up. Hundreds of people fled from the city, leaving the sick without help, and the dead without burial. Saint Cyprian, providing an example by his firmness and his courage, tended the sick and buried the dead himself, not only Christians but also pagans. The plague was accompanied by drought and famine. A horde of barbarian Numidians, taking advantage of the misfortune, fell upon the inhabitants, taking many into captivity. Saint Cyprian moved many rich Carthaginians to offer up means for feeding the starving and ransoming captives. a new persecution against Christians spread under the emperor Valerian (253-259), the Carthaginian proconsul Paternus ordered the saint to offer sacrifice to idols. He steadfastly refused to do this. He also refused to give the names and addresses of the presbyters of the church of Carthage. They sent the saint to the city of Curubis, and Deacon Pontus voluntarily followed his bishop into exile. the day the saint arrived at the place of exile he had a vision, predicting for him a quick martyr’s end. While in exile, Saint Cyprian wrote many letters and books. Desiring to suffer at Carthage, he returned there. Taken before the court, he was set at liberty until the following year. Nearly all the Christians of Carthage came to take leave of their bishop and receive his blessing. the trial, Saint Cyprian calmly and firmly refused to offer sacrifice to idols and was sentenced to beheading with a sword. Hearing the sentence, Saint Cyprian said, “Thanks be to God!” All the people cried out with one voice, “Let us also be beheaded with him!” to the place of execution, the saint again gave his blessing to all and arranged to give twenty-five gold coins to the executioner. He then tied a handkerchief over his eyes, and gave his hands to be bound to the presbyter and archdeacon standing near him and lowered his head. Christians put their cloths and napkins in front of him so as to collect the martyr’s blood. Saint Cyprian was executed in the year 258. The body of the saint was taken by night and given burial in a private crypt of the procurator Macrobius Candidianus. say that his holy relics were transferred to France in the time of King Charles the Great (i.e. Charlemagne, 771-814). Cyprian of Carthage left the Church a precious legacy: his writings and 80 letters. The works of Saint Cyprian were accepted by the Church as a model of Orthodox confession and read at two Ecumenical Councils (Ephesus and Chalcedon). the writings of Saint Cyprian the Orthodox teaching about the Church is stated: It has its foundation upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and was proclaimed and built up by the Apostles. The inner unity is expressed in an unity of faith and love, and the outer unity is actualized by the hierarchy and sacraments of the Church. the Church Christ comprises all the fulness of life and salvation. Those having separated themselves from the unity of the Church do not have true life in themselves. Christian love is shown as the bond that holds the Church together. “Love is the foundation of all the virtues, and it continues with us eternally in the Heavenly Kingdom.”

Africa, North Africa, 300, 4th Century Folder, Augustine of Hippo

Africa, North Africa, 374-430, Saint Augustine of Hippo
Rome, 374-430, Saint Augustine of Hippo; Roman Saint, 367-420, Jerome ; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430); JEROME, SCHOLAR, TRANSLATOR, AND THEOLOGIAN (30 SEP 420); Martyr Pamphilius the Presbyter at Caesarea, in Palestine, Commemorated on February 16; St Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium, Commemorated on June 15;

Africa, North Africa, 400, 5th 6th Century Folder, Vandals

Africa, North Africa, 428-477, Vandal King, Genseric (Guneric)
North Africa, 428-477, Vandal King, Genseric (Guneric) ; Gaiseric (c.â€‰389 â€“ 25 January 477),[1] also known as Geiseric or Genseric (Latin: Gaisericus, Geisericus; reconstructed Vandalic: *GaisarÄ«x [a]) was King of the Vandals and Alans (428â€“477), a kingdom he established, and was one of the key players in the difficulties faced by the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century. Through his nearly 50 years of rule, he raised a relatively insignificant Germanic tribe to the status of a major Mediterranean power. His most famous exploit, however, was the capture and plundering of Rome in June 455. He also defeated two major efforts by the Romans to overthrow him, the first one by the emperor Majorian in 460 or 461, and another by Basiliscus at the Battle of Cape Bon in 468. After dying in Carthage, Gaiseric was succeeded by his son Huneric. 62 Martyred Priests of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8; 300 Martyred laypeople of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8;

Africa, North Africa, 429-534, Vandal Kingdom in North Africa
North Africa, 429-534, Vandal Kingdom in North Africa; The Vandal Kingdom (Latin: Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Latin: Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was established by the Germanic Vandal people under Gaiseric. It ruled in North Africa and the Mediterranean 435â€“534 CE. In 429 CE, the Vandals, estimated to number 80,000 people, had crossed by boat from Hispania to North Africa. They advanced eastward, conquering the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In 435, the Roman Empire, then ruling North Africa, allowed the Vandals to settle in the provinces of Numidia and Mauretania when it became clear that the Vandal army could not be defeated by Roman military forces. In 439 the Vandals renewed their advance eastward and captured Carthage, the most important city of North Africa. The fledgling kingdom then conquered the Roman-ruled islands of Mallorca, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica in the western Mediterranean. In the 460s, the Romans launched two unsuccessful military expeditions by sea in an attempt to overthrow the Vandals and reclaim North Africa. The conquest of North Africa by the Vandals was a blow to the beleaguered Western Roman Empire as North Africa was a major source of revenue and a supplier of grain (mostly wheat) to the city of Rome. Although primarily remembered for the sack of Rome in 455 and their persecution of Nicene Christians in favor of Arian Christianity, the Vandals were also patrons of learning. Grand building projects continued, schools flourished, and North Africa fostered many of the most innovative writers and natural scientists of the late Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire.[5] The Vandal Kingdom ended in 534, when it was conquered by Belisarius in the Vandalic War and incorporated into the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire). 62 Martyred Priests of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8; 300 Martyred laypeople of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8;

Africa, North Africa, 455, Vandal Sack of Rome
North Africa, 455, Vandal Sack of Rome; The sack of 455 was the third of four ancient sacks of Rome; it was conducted by the Vandals and the Moors, who were then at war with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus. Background[edit] In the 440s, the Vandal king Genseric and the Roman Emperor Valentinian III had betrothed their children, Huneric and Eudocia,[2] to strengthen their alliance, reached in 442 with a peace treaty (the marriage was delayed as Eudocia was too young). In 455 Valentinian was killed, and Petronius Maximus rose to the throne. Petronius married Valentinian's widow, Licinia Eudoxia, and had his son Palladius marry Eudocia; in this way Petronius was to strengthen his bond with the Theodosian dynasty. Unhappy, however, with her husband's murder and the usurpation of Maximus, Eudoxia turned to aid from the Vandals to remove Maximus from his undeserved throne. The overture was favorably met, because Maximus' revolution was damaging to Genseric's ambitions. The king of the Vandals claimed that the broken betrothal between Huneric and Eudocia invalidated his peace treaty with Valentinian, and set sail to attack Rome, landing at Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber.[3] The sack[edit] Before approaching the city, the Vandals knocked down all of the city's aqueducts. At the sight of the approaching Vandals, Maximus and his soldiers tried to flee the city, but he was spotted and killed by a Roman mob outside the city,[4] possibly together with his son Palladius. Upon the Vandal arrival, according to the chronicler Prosper of Aquitaine, Pope Leo I requested that Genseric not destroy the ancient city nor murder its inhabitants. Genseric agreed and the gates of Rome were thrown open to him and his men. While Genseric kept his promise not to burn the city and slaughter its inhabitants, he did carry some off to be slaves, and during that time Genseric managed to capture Empress Licinia Eudoxia, Valentinian's widow, and her daughters, Eudocia and Placidia as they tried to escape.[5] Eudoxia and her children were the last of Rome's imperial family. Eudocia would later marry Huneric. Aftermath[edit] A 16th century perception of the Vandals, illustrated in the manuscript "ThÃ©Ã¢tre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel". Painted by Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library.[6] It is accepted that Genseric looted great amounts of treasure from the city, damaging objects of cultural significance such as the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus by stripping away the gilt bronze roof tiles.[a][8] There is, however, some debate over the severity of the Vandal sack. The sack of 455 is generally seen as being more thorough than the Visigothic sack of 410,[9] because the Vandals plundered Rome for fourteen days whereas the Visigoths spent only three days in the city. Interpretation[edit] A cause of significant controversy is the claim that the sack was relatively "clean", in that there was little murder and violence, and the Vandals did not burn the buildings of the city. This interpretation seems to stem from Prosper's claim that Pope Leo I managed to persuade Genseric to refrain from violence. However, Victor of Vita records that a number of shiploads of captives arrived in Africa from Rome, with the purpose of being sold into slavery. Similarly, the Byzantine historian Procopius reports that a church was burned down. Some modern historians like John Henry Haaren stated that temples, public buildings, private houses and even the emperor's palace were sacked.[10] Besides taking many Romans as slaves, the Vandals also committed other depredations like taking immense quantities of gold, silver, jewels and furniture, destroying works of art, and killing a number of citizens.[citation needed] St. Paulinus the Merciful the Bishop of Nola, Commemorated on January 23;

Africa, North Africa, 600, 7th-16th Century Folder, Medieval Arabic Africa, Moslem

Africa, North Africa, 647, Arab Conquest of Exarchate of Africa 647
Arab Conquest of Exarchate of Africa 647; Exarchate of Africa, Carthage as Capital;

Africa, North Africa, 800, 9th-10th Century Folder, Aghlabids dynasty, Sunni

Africa, North Africa, 800-909, Aghlabids dynasty, Sunni
North Africa, Aghlabids dynasty, 800-909, Sunni ; Aghlabids Emir, 800-812, Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab ibn Salim, Sunni Islam; Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23 ;

Africa, North Africa, 800-812, Aghlabids Emir, Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab ibn Salim
North Africa, Aghlabids Emir, 800-812, Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab ibn Salim; Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23 ;

Africa, North Africa, Carthage and Tunis Folder

Carthage, North Africa
Carthage; Carthagian Empire; Virginmartyr Julia of Carthage, Commemorated on July 16 ; Apostle Epenetus of the Seventy, Commemorated on July 30; Holy Apostle of the Seventy Epenetus was a disciple of the Savior. Holy Apostle Epenetus was made bishop at Carthage. In his Epistle to the Romans, the holy Apostle Paul writes: “Greet my dear Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ” (Rom. 16:5). Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated on August 13; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31 ; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; 49 Martyrs with Callistratus, Commemorated September 27 ; Martyr Callistratus, Commemorated on September 27 ; Martyr Terence and 39 ohers of Carthage, Commemorated on October 28 ; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ; Venerable Melania the Younger of Rome, Commemorated on December 31 ; Venerable Domnica of Constantinople, Commemorated January 8 ; St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated January 21 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); Martyr Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman, and Her Sons, Commemorated on March 20; Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage, Commemorated on April 10; St Monica, Commemorated on May 4; Martyr Alexander of Rome, Commemorated on May 13; St Augustine the Bishop of Hippo, Commemorated on June 15 ;

Vandal Kingdom, Hippo and Carthage, North Africa, 429 - 643,
North Africa, 429-534, Vandal Kingdom in North Africa; Africa (Roman province); 7 Holy Maccabee Martyrs, Commemorated on August 1; Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated on August 13; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; St Peter the Tax-Collector, Commemorated on September 22; Martyr Andrew of Syracuse, martyred in Africa, Commemorated on September 23; St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ; Venerable Melania the Younger of Rome, Commemorated on December 31 ; Apostle Mark the Evangelist of the Seventy, Commemorated January 4 ; St Paulinus the Merciful the Bishop of Nola, Commemorated on January 23 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202); Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage, Commemorated on April 10; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25; St Monica, Commemorated on May 4; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936; The Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, Commemorated on June 29 ;

Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, 429-534,
North Africa, 429-534, Vandal Kingdom in North Africa; The Vandal Kingdom (Latin: Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Latin: Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was established by the Germanic Vandal people under Gaiseric. It ruled in North Africa and the Mediterranean 435â€“534 CE. In 429 CE, the Vandals, estimated to number 80,000 people, had crossed by boat from Hispania to North Africa. They advanced eastward, conquering the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In 435, the Roman Empire, then ruling North Africa, allowed the Vandals to settle in the provinces of Numidia and Mauretania when it became clear that the Vandal army could not be defeated by Roman military forces. In 439 the Vandals renewed their advance eastward and captured Carthage, the most important city of North Africa. The fledgling kingdom then conquered the Roman-ruled islands of Mallorca, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica in the western Mediterranean. In the 460s, the Romans launched two unsuccessful military expeditions by sea in an attempt to overthrow the Vandals and reclaim North Africa. The conquest of North Africa by the Vandals was a blow to the beleaguered Western Roman Empire as North Africa was a major source of revenue and a supplier of grain (mostly wheat) to the city of Rome. Although primarily remembered for the sack of Rome in 455 and their persecution of Nicene Christians in favor of Arian Christianity, the Vandals were also patrons of learning. Grand building projects continued, schools flourished, and North Africa fostered many of the most innovative writers and natural scientists of the late Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire.[5] The Vandal Kingdom ended in 534, when it was conquered by Belisarius in the Vandalic War and incorporated into the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire). 62 Martyred Priests of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8; 300 Martyred laypeople of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8;

Carthage, North Africa (modern Tunis)
Carthage (modern Tunis) ; Virginmartyr Julia of Carthage, Commemorated on July 16 ; 7 Holy Maccabee Martyrs, Commemorated on August 1; Apostle Epenetus of the Seventy, Commemorated on July 30; Holy Apostle of the Seventy Epenetus was a disciple of the Savior. Holy Apostle Epenetus was made bishop at Carthage. In his Epistle to the Romans, the holy Apostle Paul writes: “Greet my dear Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ” (Rom. 16:5). Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor, Commemorated on August 13; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430) ; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31; CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE, BISHOP AND MARTYR (15 SEP 258) ; Martyr Callistratus, Commemorated on September 27 ; 49 Martyrs with Callistratus, Commemorated September 27 ; Martyr Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, Commemorated February 1 ; PERPETUA AND HER COMPANIONS, MARTYRS AT CARTHAGE (7 MAR 202) ; MONNICA, MOTHER OF AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (4 MAY 387); Martyr Alexander of Rome, Commemorated on May 13; St Augustine the Bishop of Hippo, Commemorated on June 15 ;

Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa
Tunis, Tunisia, Africa; LOUIS IX, KING OF FRANCE (25 AUGUST 1270);

Exarchate of Africa, Carthage as Capital
Exarchate of Africa, Carthage as Capital;

Tunisia, North Africa
Tunisia; MONNICA, MOTHER OF AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (4 MAY 387);

Africa (The Continent Africa)
Africa; LILLIAN TRASHER MISSIONARY IN EGYPT, 1961, Commemorated December 19 ; Martyr Callistratus, Commemorated on September 27 ; THOMAS AQUINAS, PRIEST, FRIAR, AND THEOLOGIAN (28 JAN 1274) ; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25 ;

Thacora (strategic point)
Thacora (Tagora) in Africa; Numidia; St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ;

Curubis, Tunisia, North Africa
Curubis or Korba, Tunisia Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated August 31 ;

Africa, North Africa, Algeria Folder, Algiers and Hippo

Algeria, North Africa
Algeria; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ;

Tamanrasset, Algeria
Tamanrasset; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ;

Tolga, Algeria
Tolga; Icon of the Mother of God of Tolga ;

Thacora (Tagora) Algeria, North Africa
Thacora (Tagora) in Africa; Numidia; St Crispina;

Numidia (Algeria) and Numidians
Numidia (Algeria) and Numidians; Hieromartyr Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage, Commemorated on August 31;

Vandal Kingdom North Africa, Hippo and Carthage
Vandal Kingdom North Africa; 62 Martyred Priests of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8 ; 300 Martyred laypeople of Africa, martyred by the Arians, Commemorated on December 8 ;

Hippo, Algeria, North Africa
Hippo; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430); MONNICA, MOTHER OF AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (4 MAY 387); St Monica, Commemorated on May 4 ; GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (9 MAY 389); St Augustine the Bishop of Hippo, Commemorated on June 15 ; The Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, Commemorated on June 29; of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo the Holy Church piously remembers the sufferings of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles Peter and Paul. Peter, the fervent follower of Jesus Christ, for the profound confession of His Divinity: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God,â€ was deemed worthy by the Savior to hear in answer, “Blessed art thou, Simon ... I tell thee, that thou art Peter [Petrus], and on this stone [petra] I build My Churchâ€ (Mt.16:16-18). On “this stoneâ€ [petra], is on that which thou sayest: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living Godâ€ it is on this thy confession I build My Church. Wherefore the “thou art Peterâ€: it is from the “stoneâ€ [petra] that Peter [Petrus] is, and not from Peter [Petrus] that the “stoneâ€ [petra] is, just as the Christian is from Christ, and not Christ from the Christian. Do you want to know, from what sort of “rockâ€ [petra] the Apostle Peter [Petrus] was named? Hear the Apostle Paul: “Brethren, I do not want ye to be ignorant,â€ says the Apostle of Christ, “how all our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christâ€ (1 Cor.10: 1-4).... Lord Jesus Christ, in the final days of His earthly life, in the days of His mission to the race of man, chose from among the disciples His twelve Apostles to preach the Word of God. Among them, the Apostle Peter for his fiery ardor was vouchsafed to occupy the first place (Mt.10:2) and to be as it were the representative person for all the Church. Therefore it is said to him, preferentially, after the confession: “I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in the heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth: shall be loosed in heavenâ€ (Mt.16: 19). Therefore it was not one man, but rather the One Universal Church, that received these “keysâ€ and the right “to bind and loosen.â€ And that it was actually the Church that received this right, and not exclusively a single person, turn your attention to another place of the Scriptures, where the same Lord says to all His Apostles, “Receive ye the Holy Spiritâ€ and further after this, “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them: and whose soever sins ye retain, are retainedâ€ (John 20: 22-23); or: “whatsoever ye bind upon the earth, shall be bound in Heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosened in heavenâ€ (Mt.18:18). Thus, it is the Church that binds, the Church that loosens; the Church, built upon the foundational cornerstone, Jesus Christ Himself (Eph 2:20), doth bind and loosen. Let both the binding and the loosening be feared: the loosening, in order not to fall under this again; the binding, in order not to remain forever in this condition. Therefore “Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins,â€ says Wisdom (Prov 5:22); and except for Holy Church nowhere is it possible to receive the loosening. His Resurrection the Lord entrusted the Apostle Peter to shepherd His spiritual flock not because, that among the disciples only Peter alone was pre-deserved to shepherd the flock of Christ, but Christ addresses Himself chiefly to Peter because, that Peter was first among the Apostles and as such the representative of the Church; besides which, having turned in this instance to Peter alone, as to the top Apostle, Christ by this confirms the unity of the Church. “Simon of Johnâ€ -- says the Lord to Peter -- “lovest thou Me?â€ -- and the Apostle answered: “Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Theeâ€; and a second time it was thus asked, and a second time he thus answered; being asked a third time, seeing that as it were not believed, he was saddened. But how is it possible for him not to believe That One, Who knew his heart? And wherefore then Peter answered: “Lord, Thou knowest all; Thou knowest that I love Thee.â€ “And sayeth Jesus to himâ€ all three times “Feed My sheepâ€ (John 20:15-17). this, the triple appealing of the Savior to Peter and the triple confession of Peter before the Lord had a particular beneficial purpose for the Apostle. That one, to whom was given “the keys of the kingdomâ€ and the right “to bind and to loose,â€ bound himself thrice by fear and cowardice (Mt.26:69-75), and the Lord thrice loosens him by His appeal and in turn by his confession of strong love. And to shepherd literally the flock of Christ was acquired by all the Apostles and their successors. “Take heed, therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,â€ the Apostle Paul urges church presbyters, “over which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own bloodâ€ (Acts 20:28); and the Apostle Peter to the elders: “Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind: neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock. And when is appeared the Prince of pastors, ye will receive unfading crowns of gloryâ€ (1 Pet. 5:2-4). is remarkable that Christ, having said to Peter: “Feed My sheep,â€ did not say: “Feed thy sheep,â€ but rather to feed, good servant, the sheep of the Lord. “Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?â€ (1 Cor.1:13). “Feed My sheepâ€. Wherefore “wolfish robbers, wolfish oppressors, deceitful teachers and mercenaries, not being concerned about the flockâ€ (Mt.7:15; Acts 20:29; 2 Pet 2:1; John 10:12), having plundered a strange flock and making of the spoils as though it be of their own particular gain, they think that they feed their flock. Such are not good pastors, as pastors of the Lord. “The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheepâ€ (John 10:11), entrusted to Him by the chief Shepherd Himself (1 Pet 5:4). And the Apostle Peter, true to his calling, gave his soul for the very flock of Christ, having sealed his apostleship by a martyr’s death, is now glorified throughout all the world. Apostle Paul, formerly Saul, was changed from a robbing wolf into a meek lamb. Formerly he was an enemy of the Church, then is manifest as an Apostle. Formerly he stalked it, then preached it. Having received from the high priests the authority at large to throw all Christians in chains for execution, he was already on the way, he breathed out “threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lordâ€ (Acts 9:1), he thirsted for blood, but “He that dwells in the Heavens shall laugh him to scornâ€ (Ps 2:4). When he, “having persecuted and vexedâ€ in such manner “the Church of Godâ€ (1Cor.15:9; Acts 8:5), he came near Damascus, and the Lord from Heaven called to him: “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?â€ and I am here, and I am there, I am everywhere: here is My head; there is My body. There becomes nothing of a surprise in this; we ourselves are members of the Body of Christ. “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me; it is hard for thee to kick against the goadâ€ (Acts 9:4-5). Saul, however, “trembling and frightenedâ€, cried out: “Who art Thou, Lord?â€ The Lord answered him, “I am Jesus Whom thou persecutest.â€ Saul suddenly undergoes a change: “What wantest Thou me to do?â€ -- he cries out. And suddenly for him there is the Voice: “Arise, and go to the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must doâ€ (Acts 9:6). Here the Lord sends Ananias: “Arise and go into the streetâ€ to a man, “by the name of Saul,â€ and baptize him, “for this one is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israelâ€ (Acts 9: 11, 15, 18). This vessel must be filled with My Grace. “Ananias, however, answered: Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he hath done to Thy saints in Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Thy Nameâ€ (Acts 9:13-14). But the Lord urgently commands Ananias: “Search for and fetch him, for this vessel is chosen by Me: for I shall show him what great things he must suffer for My name’s sakeâ€ (Acts 9:11, 15-16). actually the Lord did show the Apostle Paul what things he had to suffer for His Name. He instructed him the deeds; He did not stop at the chains, the fetters, the prisons and shipwrecks; He Himself felt for him in his sufferings, He Himself guided him towards this day. On a single day the memory of the sufferings of both these Apostles is celebrated, though they suffered on separate days, but by the spirit and the closeness of their suffering they constitute one. Peter went first, and Paul followed soon after him. Formerly called Saul, and then Paul, having transformed his pride into humility. His very name (Paulus), meaning “small, little, less,â€ demonstrates this. What is the Apostle Paul after this? Ask him, and he himself gives answer to this: “I am,â€ says he, “the least of the Apostles... but I have labored more abundantly than all of them: yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with meâ€ (1 Cor.15:9-10). so, brethren, celebrating now the memory of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, remembering their venerable sufferings, we esteem their true faith and holy life, we esteem the innocence of their sufferings and pure confession. Loving in them the sublime quality and imitating them by great exploits, “in which to be likened to themâ€ (2 Thess 3: 5-9), and we shall attain to that eternal bliss which is prepared for all the saints. The path of our life before was more grievous, thornier, harder, but “we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnessesâ€ (Heb 12: 1), having passed by along it, made now for us easier, and lighter, and more readily passable. First there passed along it “the author and finisher of our faith,â€ our Lord Jesus Christ Himself (Heb 12: 2); His daring Apostles followed after Him; then the martyrs, children, women, virgins and a great multitude of witnesses. Who acted in them and helped them on this path? He Who said, “Without Me ye can do nothingâ€ (John 15: 5).

Tagaste in Numidia, Algeria, North Africa
Tagaste in Numidia, North Africa ; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430); St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ; St Monica, Commemorated on May 4 ; St Augustine the Bishop of Hippo, Commemorated on June 15 ;

Theveste, North Africa (a crossroads)
Theveste (or Tebessa); St Crispina, Commemorated December 5 ;

Africa, North Africa, Morocco Folder

Morocco, North Africa
Morocco; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ; PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, SCIENTIST AND MILITARY CHAPLAIN, 1955, Commemorated April 10 ;

Barbary Pirates, North Africa (Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Libya, Mauritania)
Barbary Coast of the Moors; Moors of the Barbary Coast ; Morocco; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ; PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, SCIENTIST AND MILITARY CHAPLAIN, 1955, Commemorated April 10 ;

Barbary Coast of the Moors, North Africa (Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Libya, Mauritania)
Barbary Coast of the Moors; Moors of the Barbary Coast ; Morocco; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ; PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, SCIENTIST AND MILITARY CHAPLAIN, 1955, Commemorated April 10 ;

Moors of the Barbary Coast, North Africa (Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Libya, Mauritania)
Moors of the Barbary Coast ; Barbary Coast of the Moors; Morocco; CHARLES DE FOUCAULD, Hermit and Servant of the Poor, 1916, Commemorated December 1 ; PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, SCIENTIST AND MILITARY CHAPLAIN, 1955, Commemorated April 10 ;

Mauretania, North Africa
Mauretania; Martyr Mertius of Mauretania, Commemorated January 12 ;

Africa, North Africa, Libya Folder

Libya, North Africa
Libya Apostle and Evangelist Luke, Commemorated October 18 ; Hieromartyr Dionysius the Bishop of Alexandria, Commemorated October 5 ; Apostle Mark the Evangelist of the Seventy, Commemorated January 4 ; Apostle and Evangelist Luke of the Seventy, Commemorated January 4; Martyr Theophilus the Deacon, in Libya, Commemorated January 8 ; Venerable Mary of Egypt, Commemorated on April 1; GEORGE, SOLDIER and MARTYR, 23 APRIL 303, Commemorated April 23; Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25; St Cyril the Archbishop of Alexandria, Commemorated on June 9;

Necropolis (an example of large Christian graveyards, Tripoli)
Necropolis (an example): these large Christian graveyards (Jedars or walls) were throughout northern Algeria and Libya. Apostle and Evangelist Mark, Commemorated on April 25;

Pentapolis, North Africa (Benhgazi)
Pentapolis, North Africa (Benhgazi) ; St Nectarius Kephalas the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, Commemorated on November 9 ; Hieromartyr Theodore the Bishop of Cyrene in Libya, Commemorated July 4 ;

Cyrene in Libya, North Africa
Cyrene in Libya; Hieromartyr Theodore the Bishop of Cyrene in Libya, Commemorated July 4 ;

Africa, South Africa Folder

South Africa
South Africa; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John G. Lake, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1935, Commemorated September 16 ; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); RICHARD MEUX BENSON, RELIGIOUS, 1915, Commemorated January 16 ; David du Plessis, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1987, Commemorated February 2 ; CHARLES FREER ANDREWS, PRIEST AND ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â€ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚ÂœFRIEND OF THE POORÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â€ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚ÂÂÂÂ IN INDIA, 1940, Commemorated February 12; Smith Wigglesworth, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1947, Commemorated March 12 ; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

British Empire - South Africa
South Africa; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John G. Lake, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1935, Commemorated September 16 ; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); RICHARD MEUX BENSON, RELIGIOUS, 1915, Commemorated January 16 ; David du Plessis, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1987, Commemorated February 2 ; CHARLES FREER ANDREWS, PRIEST AND ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â€ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚ÂœFRIEND OF THE POORÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â€ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚ÂÂÂÂ IN INDIA, 1940, Commemorated February 12; Smith Wigglesworth, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1947, Commemorated March 12 ; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Capetown, South Africa (Cape of Good Hope)
Capetown, South Africa; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Boer republics of South Africa (1850-1902)
Boer republics of South Africa; Charles Gore of RICHARD MEUX BENSON, RELIGIOUS, 1915, AND CHARLES GORE BISHOP OF WORCESTER, BIRMINGHAM & OXFORD, 1932, Commemorated January 16;

Africa, South Africa 1880-1967, Folder

Africa, South Africa, 1800, 19th and 20th Century Folder, Boer Wars, Gandhi

Africa, South Africa, 1880-1881, Boer War 1 (Transvaal Republic, 1899)
Boer Wars; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936;

Africa, South Africa, 1889-1948, Mahatma Gandhi
India, 1889-1948, Mahatma Gandhi; CHARLES FREER ANDREWS, PRIEST AND ÂœFRIEND OF THE POORÂ IN INDIA, 1940, Commemorated January 12;

Africa, South Africa, 1899-1902, Boer War 2 (Orange Free State, 1880)
Boer Wars; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936;

Africa, South Africa, 1900, 20th Century, Albert Lutuli, Sharpeville massacre, Nelson Mandela

Africa, South Africa, 1918-1967, Politician, Albert Lutuli, preacher, teacher, nonviolent, christian
South African Politician, 1952-1967, Albert Lutuli; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John Lutuli (commonly spelled Luthuli), also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi" (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), was a South African teacher and politician. Lutuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid. third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898. His father died, and he and his mother returned to her ancestral home of Groutville in KwaDukuza (Stanger), Natal, South Africa. was confirmed in the Methodist church and became a lay preacher. He joined the Adams College, staff and in 1928 he became secretary of the African Teacher's Association and in 1933 its president. He was also active in missionary work. 1944 Lutuli joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1945 he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Province Provincial Division of ANC and in 1951 to the presidency of the Division. The next year he joined with other ANC leaders in organizing nonviolent campaigns to defy discriminatory apartheid laws. month later Lutuli was elected president-general of ANC. Responding immediately, the government imposed two two-year bans on Lutuli's movement. When the second ban expired in 1956, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others. In December 1957, after nearly a year in custody during the preliminary hearings, Lutuli was released and the charges against him and sixty-four of his compatriots were dropped. Another five year ban confined him to a fifteen-mile radius of his home. The ban lifted in March 1960, to permit his arrest for publicly burning his pass following the Sharpeville massacre. In the ensuing state of emergency he was arrested, found guilty, fined, given a suspended jail sentence and returned to Groutville. One final time the ban was lifted, this time for ten days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo. December 1961, without Lutuli's sanction, Nelson Mandela of the Provincial ANC publicly launched Umkhonto we Sizwe at the All In Conference, where delegates from several movements had convened to discuss cooperation. Mandela's charisma and the global publicity surrounding his trial and imprisonment upstaged Lutuli, who grew increasingly despondent in isolation. 1962 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965. Since he was banned from travelling to Glasgow the Luthuli Scholarship Fund was setup by the Student Representative Council to enable a black South African student to study at Glasgow University. fourth ban to run for five years confining Lutuli to the immediate vicinity of his home was issued in May 1964, to run concurrently with the third ban. July 1967, at the age of 69, he was fatally injured in an accident near his home in Stanger.

Africa, South Africa, 1938-2013 , Nelson Mandella, revolution, dismantiling apartheid, institutionalised racism, socialist
Africa, South Africa, 1938-2013 , Nelson Mandella; Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 - 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Xhosa speaker, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, Union of South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed president of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial. served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure and fears of racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as secretary-general of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term and was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the charitable Nelson Mandela Foundation. was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the far left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Thembu clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of the Nation".

Africa, South Africa, 1960, Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21;

Africa, South Africa, Orange River Folder

Orange River

Orange River Source (Lesotho, Drakensberg Mountains)

British Empire - Basutoland - Orange River Source - South Africa
British Empire - Basutoland - Orange River Source - South Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Drakensberg Mountains (11,400 feet)
Drakensberg Mountains

Orange River 1

Orange River 2 (Gariep Dam)

Philippoplis, South Africa (Orange River 2.5)
Philippoplis, South Africa ;

Orange River 3 (Vanderkloof Dam)

Orange River 4 (Vaal River Mouth)

Africa, South Africa, Orange River 4, Vaal River Folder, Johannesburg

Vaal River

Witwatersrand Mountains, Ridge of White Waters
Witwatersrand Mountains

Vaal River Source (Mpumalanga, Drakensberg Mountains)

Vaal River 1 (Blesbokspruit Mouth)

Blesbokspruit River

Blesbokspruit River Source

Vaal River 2 (Johannesburg)

Johannesburg, South Africa (Orange River 4, Vaal River 2)
Johannesburg, South Africa ; John G. Lake, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1935, Commemorated September 16 ; David du Plessis, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1987, Commemorated February 2 ;

Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (Johannesburg) 1908
Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa; John G. Lake, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1935, Commemorated September 16 ; David du Plessis, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1987, Commemorated February 2 ;

Doornfontein, Johanasburg Suburb
Doornfontein, Johanasburg Suburb; John G. Lake, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1935, Commemorated September 16 ;

Vaal River 3 (Wilge River Mouth, Vaal Dam)

Wilge River

Wilge River Source

Vaal River 4 (Vaal Dam)

Sharpeville massacre 1960 (Vaal River 4, 35 miles south of Johannesburg)
Sharpeville massacre; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21;

Vaal River 5 (Mooi River Mouth)

Mooi River

Mooi River Source

Vaal River 6 (Vals River Mouth)

Vals River

Vals River Source

Vaal River 7 (Vet River Mouth)

Vet River

Vet River Source

Vaal River 8 (Harts River Mouth)

Hart River

British Empire - Bechuanaland - Vaal River, South Africa
British Empire - Bechuanaland - Vaal River, South Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Vaal River 9 (Lime River Mouth)

Lime River

Vaal River 10 (Riet River Mouth)

Riet River

Reit River 1 (Modder River Mouth)

Modder River

Modder River Upper Modder

Riet River 2

Vaal River Mouth (Orange River 4)

Hart River Source

Orange River 5

Orange River 6 (Upington)

Orange River 7

Orange River 8 (Aggeneys)

Orange River Mouth (Atlantic Ocean)

Africa, South Africa, Gourits River Folder, Natal Province, Capetown

Gourits River

Gourits River Source (Gamka and Olifants Rivers)

Gourits River Mouth (Gouritsmond, Indian Ocean)

Capetown, South Africa (Cape of Good Hope) Bernard Mizeki
Capetown, South Africa; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Natal Province, South Africa, Albert John Lutuli, Charles Freer Andrews
Natal Province, South Africa; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; CHARLES FREER ANDREWS, PRIEST AND ÂœFRIEND OF THE POORÂ IN INDIA, 1940, Commemorated February 12;

Stanger, Natal, South Africa, Albert John Lutuli
Stanger, South Africa ; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John Lutuli (commonly spelled Luthuli), also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi" (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), was a South African teacher and politician. Lutuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid. third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898. His father died, and he and his mother returned to her ancestral home of Groutville in KwaDukuza (Stanger), Natal, South Africa. was confirmed in the Methodist church and became a lay preacher. He joined the Adams College, staff and in 1928 he became secretary of the African Teacher's Association and in 1933 its president. He was also active in missionary work. 1944 Lutuli joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1945 he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Province Provincial Division of ANC and in 1951 to the presidency of the Division. The next year he joined with other ANC leaders in organizing nonviolent campaigns to defy discriminatory apartheid laws. month later Lutuli was elected president-general of ANC. Responding immediately, the government imposed two two-year bans on Lutuli's movement. When the second ban expired in 1956, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others. In December 1957, after nearly a year in custody during the preliminary hearings, Lutuli was released and the charges against him and sixty-four of his compatriots were dropped. Another five year ban confined him to a fifteen-mile radius of his home. The ban lifted in March 1960, to permit his arrest for publicly burning his pass following the Sharpeville massacre. In the ensuing state of emergency he was arrested, found guilty, fined, given a suspended jail sentence and returned to Groutville. One final time the ban was lifted, this time for ten days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo. December 1961, without Lutuli's sanction, Nelson Mandela of the Provincial ANC publicly launched Umkhonto we Sizwe at the All In Conference, where delegates from several movements had convened to discuss cooperation. Mandela's charisma and the global publicity surrounding his trial and imprisonment upstaged Lutuli, who grew increasingly despondent in isolation. 1962 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965. Since he was banned from travelling to Glasgow the Luthuli Scholarship Fund was setup by the Student Representative Council to enable a black South African student to study at Glasgow University. fourth ban to run for five years confining Lutuli to the immediate vicinity of his home was issued in May 1964, to run concurrently with the third ban. July 1967, at the age of 69, he was fatally injured in an accident near his home in Stanger.

Groutville, Natal, South Africa, Albert John Lutuli
Groutville, South Africa; ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John Lutuli (commonly spelled Luthuli), also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi" (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), was a South African teacher and politician. Lutuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid. third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898. His father died, and he and his mother returned to her ancestral home of Groutville in KwaDukuza (Stanger), Natal, South Africa. was confirmed in the Methodist church and became a lay preacher. He joined the Adams College, staff and in 1928 he became secretary of the African Teacher's Association and in 1933 its president. He was also active in missionary work. 1944 Lutuli joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1945 he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Province Provincial Division of ANC and in 1951 to the presidency of the Division. The next year he joined with other ANC leaders in organizing nonviolent campaigns to defy discriminatory apartheid laws. month later Lutuli was elected president-general of ANC. Responding immediately, the government imposed two two-year bans on Lutuli's movement. When the second ban expired in 1956, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others. In December 1957, after nearly a year in custody during the preliminary hearings, Lutuli was released and the charges against him and sixty-four of his compatriots were dropped. Another five year ban confined him to a fifteen-mile radius of his home. The ban lifted in March 1960, to permit his arrest for publicly burning his pass following the Sharpeville massacre. In the ensuing state of emergency he was arrested, found guilty, fined, given a suspended jail sentence and returned to Groutville. One final time the ban was lifted, this time for ten days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo. December 1961, without Lutuli's sanction, Nelson Mandela of the Provincial ANC publicly launched Umkhonto we Sizwe at the All In Conference, where delegates from several movements had convened to discuss cooperation. Mandela's charisma and the global publicity surrounding his trial and imprisonment upstaged Lutuli, who grew increasingly despondent in isolation. 1962 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965. Since he was banned from travelling to Glasgow the Luthuli Scholarship Fund was setup by the Student Representative Council to enable a black South African student to study at Glasgow University. fourth ban to run for five years confining Lutuli to the immediate vicinity of his home was issued in May 1964, to run concurrently with the third ban. July 1967, at the age of 69, he was fatally injured in an accident near his home in Stanger.

Sneeuberge (Snow Mountains)

Africa, South Africa, Gourits River Source, Olifants and Gamka Rivers Folder

Olifants River

Olifants River Source (north of Swartberg)

Olifants River Mouth (Gourits River Source)

Gamka River

Gamka River Source (north of Beaufort West)

Gamka River Mouth (Gourits River Source)

Africa, South Africa, Limpopo River Folder, Transvaal Colony, Mozambique

Limpopo River

Limpopo River Source

Africa, South Africa, Limpopo River Sources, Marico and Crocodile Rivers Folder

Marico River

Marico River Source

Marico River Mouth (Source of the Limpopo River)

Crocodile River

Crocodile River Source

Crocodile River (Limpopo)

Limpopo River 1

Limpopo River 2

Limpopo River 3

Transvaal Colony, Limpopo River, South Africa
Transvaal Colony; GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, APOLOGIST and WRITER, 1936, Commemorated June 12 ;

Limpopo River Mouth (Indian Ocean)

Portuguese South East Africa (Mozambique)
Portuguese South East Africa (Mozambique); BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

British Empire - Swaziland - Next to Mozambique, Limpopo River, South Africa
British Empire - Swaziland; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Africa, Central Africa Folder

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Rhodesia, Botswana Folder

Africa, Central Africa 1700-Present, Congo Basin Folder

Congo Basin
Congo Basin;

British Empire - Ascension Island, South Central Atlantic Ocean
Ascension Island, South Central Atlantic Ocean across from Congo Basin Central Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Africa, Central Africa, 1700, 18th-21st Century History Folder, Mangwende Dynasty

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, 1710-present, Mangwende Dynasty
Mangwende Dynasty, 1710-present; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Africa, Central Africa, 1800, 19th 20th Century Folder, Mungate Mangwende

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, 1880-1924, Chief Mungate Mangwende, Mangwende Dynasty
Mangwende Dynasty, 1710-present; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Limpopo River Folder

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Zambezi River Folder

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Zambezi, Outside the Arc Folder

Mozambique Island, Zambezi River Mouth, Straight of Madagascar
Mozambique, Zambezi River Mouth, Straight of Madagascar;

Rodesia, Northern Rhodesia (outside the Zambezi River arc)
Northern Rhodesia; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Northern Rhodesia (outside the Zambezi River arc)
Northern Rhodesia; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Nyasaland - Outside the Z River Arc 'Eastern Edge of Northern Rhodesia
British Empire - Nyasaland - Eastern Edge of Northern Rhodesia; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Zambezi, Inside the Arc Folder

Mashonaland (inside Zambezi River arc)
Mashonaland; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Nhowe (tribe of the Murehwa District, Mashonaland)
Nhowe (somewhere in Murehwa district, the area of the Nhowe people), Mukarakate is the Great ancestor of the Nhowe tribe, Murehwa is the place name; BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Rodesia, Southern Rhodesia (inside the Zambezi River arc)
Southern Rhodesia; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

British Empire - Southern Rhodesia (inside the Zambezi River arc)
Southern Rhodesia; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896);

Bulawayo Rhodesia (inside the arc, between Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers) Albert John Lutuli
Bulawayo Rhodesia (between Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers); ALBERT JOHN LUTHULI, PROPHETIC WITNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1967, Commemorated July 21 ; John Lutuli (commonly spelled Luthuli), also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi" (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), was a South African teacher and politician. Lutuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid. third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898. His father died, and he and his mother returned to her ancestral home of Groutville in KwaDukuza (Stanger), Natal, South Africa. was confirmed in the Methodist church and became a lay preacher. He joined the Adams College, staff and in 1928 he became secretary of the African Teacher's Association and in 1933 its president. He was also active in missionary work. 1944 Lutuli joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1945 he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Province Provincial Division of ANC and in 1951 to the presidency of the Division. The next year he joined with other ANC leaders in organizing nonviolent campaigns to defy discriminatory apartheid laws. month later Lutuli was elected president-general of ANC. Responding immediately, the government imposed two two-year bans on Lutuli's movement. When the second ban expired in 1956, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others. In December 1957, after nearly a year in custody during the preliminary hearings, Lutuli was released and the charges against him and sixty-four of his compatriots were dropped. Another five year ban confined him to a fifteen-mile radius of his home. The ban lifted in March 1960, to permit his arrest for publicly burning his pass following the Sharpeville massacre. In the ensuing state of emergency he was arrested, found guilty, fined, given a suspended jail sentence and returned to Groutville. One final time the ban was lifted, this time for ten days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo. December 1961, without Lutuli's sanction, Nelson Mandela of the Provincial ANC publicly launched Umkhonto we Sizwe at the All In Conference, where delegates from several movements had convened to discuss cooperation. Mandela's charisma and the global publicity surrounding his trial and imprisonment upstaged Lutuli, who grew increasingly despondent in isolation. 1962 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965. Since he was banned from travelling to Glasgow the Luthuli Scholarship Fund was setup by the Student Representative Council to enable a black South African student to study at Glasgow University. fourth ban to run for five years confining Lutuli to the immediate vicinity of his home was issued in May 1964, to run concurrently with the third ban. July 1967, at the age of 69, he was fatally injured in an accident near his home in Stanger.

Zambezi River 3 (Chavuma Falls)

Zambezi River

Zambezi River Source (Mwinilunga, Zambezi)
Mwinilunga, Zambezi ;

Zambezi River 1

Zambezi River 2

Zambezi River 3

Zambezi River 8 (Ngonye Falls )

Zambezi River 14 (Victoria Falls)

Zambezi River 20 (Lake Kariba)

Zambezi River 26 (Lake Cahora Bassa)

Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa (right side Zambezi River Mouth)
Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa (right side Zambezi River Mouth); BERNARD MIZEKI, CATECHIST AND MARTYR IN AFRICA (18 JUNE 1896), Commemorated June 18 ;

Zambezi River Mouth (Straight of Madagascar)

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Okavango River Folder

Okavango River

Okavango (Cubango) River Source (Angola)

Okavango River 1

Okavango River 2

Okavango (Cubango) River 3

Okavango River 4

Okavango River Mouth (Moremi Game Reserve)

Komana, Botswana (Okavango River Mouth (Moremi Game Reserve))
Komana; Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John, Commemorated on May 25;

Kalahari Desert
Kalahari Desert;

British Empire - South West Africa
British Empire - South West Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, Congo River Folder

Congo River

Boga-Zaire (Congo)
Boga-Zaire (Congo); JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Gabala (Angola)
St John Chrysostom the Archbishop of Constantinople;

Mitumba Mountains
Mitumba Mountainsl

Congo River Source (along the border)

Congo River Mouth (Atlantic Ocean)

Lukuga River

Lukuga River Source (Kalemie, Lake Tanganyika)

Lukuga River Mouth (Congo River)

Africa, East Africa Folder

East Africa
East Africa; Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia, Commemorated on October 24; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ; Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu, Commemorated on January 14; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens, Commemorated on April 5; MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983) THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886); ROLAND ALLEN, MISSION STRATEGIST, Commemorated June 8 ;

Albertine Rift

East African Rift

Mount Elgon, between Uganda and Kenya
Mount Elgon

Africa, East Africa 600BC-1983, Folder

Africa, East Africa, 600BC-700, East African Arabs

Africa, East Africa, 600 BC - 8th Century, East African Egyptian Arabs, Blemmyes Nubian Kingdom
East African Egyptian Arabs, 600 BC - 8th Century, Blemmyes Nubian Kingdom; Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu, Commemorated on January 14;

Africa, East Africa, 000, 1st Century Folder, Arabs, Apostles Thomas, Matthew

Africa, East Africa, 33-72, Apostle Thomas
Ethiopia, 1st Century, Apostle Thomas; East Africa, 1st Century, Apostle Thomas; the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told of it (as related in the Gospel of John alone); later, he confessed his faith ("My Lord and my God") on seeing Jesus' crucifixion wounds. to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of modern-day Kerala in India, Thomas is believed to have travelled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, travelling as far as the Tamilakam which is in South India.[1][5][6][7] According to their tradition, Thomas reached Muziris of Tamilakam (modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor in Kerala State, India) in AD 52.[8][9][1] In 1258, some of the relics were brought to Ortona, in Abruzzo, Italy, where they have been held in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle.[10] He is often regarded as the patron saint of India among its Christian adherents,[11][12] and the Feast of Saint Thomas on July 3 is celebrated as Indian Christian Day by believers belonging to many Christian denominations.[13][14] The name Thomas remains quite popular among the Saint Thomas Christians of the Indian subcontinent. Arapet Icon of the Mother of God, Commemorated on September 6; Arapet, or “Arabian” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared while the holy Apostle Thomas (October 6) was evangelizing Ethiopia, Arabia, and India. of the usual three stars (signifying the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God), the outer garment of the Theotokos has three circles with the head of an angel inside each one. In this feature, it resembles the icons “In Giving Birth you Preserved your Virginity” (“A Virgin Before and After Giving Birth”) (October 17) and “O All-Hymned Mother” (October 6). Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated on October 6; Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas was born in the Galilean city of Pansada and was a fisherman. Hearing the good tidings of Jesus Christ, he left all and followed after Him. The Apostle Thomas is included in the number of the holy Twelve Apostles of the Savior. to Holy Scripture, the holy Apostle Thomas did not believe the reports of the other disciples about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25). the eighth day after the Resurrection, the Lord appeared to the Apostle Thomas and showed him His wounds. “My Lord and my God,” the Apostle cried out (John 20:28). “Thomas, being once weaker in faith than the other apostles,” says Saint John Chrysostom, “toiled through the grace of God more bravely, more zealously and tirelessly than them all, so that he went preaching over nearly all the earth, not fearing to proclaim the Word of God to savage nations.” icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” In Slavonic, it says, “The Belief of Thomas.” When Saint Thomas touched the Life-giving side of the Lord, he no longer had any doubts. to Church Tradition, the holy Apostle Thomas founded Christian churches in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Parthia, Ethiopia and India. Preaching the Gospel earned him a martyr’s death. For having converted the wife and son of the prefect of the Indian city of Meliapur [Melipur], the holy apostle was locked up in prison, suffered torture, and finally, pierced with five spears, he departed to the Lord. Part of the relics of the holy Apostle Thomas are in India, in Hungary and on Mt. Athos. The name of the Apostle Thomas is associated with the Arabian (or Arapet) Icon of the Mother of God (September 6).

Africa, East Africa, 33-38, Arab Icon, Appeared to Apostle Thomas
Arabs, 38-43, Arab Icon, Appeared to Apostle Thomas; Arapet, or “Arabian” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared while the holy Apostle Thomas (October 6) was evangelizing Ethiopia, Arabia, and India. of the usual three stars (signifying the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God), the outer garment of the Theotokos has three circles with the head of an angel inside each one. In this feature, it resembles the icons “In Giving Birth you Preserved your Virginity” (“A Virgin Before and After Giving Birth”) (October 17) and “O All-Hymned Mother” (October 6). East Africa, 1st Century, Apostle Thomas; the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told of it (as related in the Gospel of John alone); later, he confessed his faith ("My Lord and my God") on seeing Jesus' crucifixion wounds. to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of modern-day Kerala in India, Thomas is believed to have travelled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, travelling as far as the Tamilakam which is in South India.[1][5][6][7] According to their tradition, Thomas reached Muziris of Tamilakam (modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor in Kerala State, India) in AD 52.[8][9][1] In 1258, some of the relics were brought to Ortona, in Abruzzo, Italy, where they have been held in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle.[10] He is often regarded as the patron saint of India among its Christian adherents,[11][12] and the Feast of Saint Thomas on July 3 is celebrated as Indian Christian Day by believers belonging to many Christian denominations.[13][14] The name Thomas remains quite popular among the Saint Thomas Christians of the Indian subcontinent. Arapet Icon of the Mother of God, Commemorated on September 6; Arapet, or “Arabian” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared while the holy Apostle Thomas (October 6) was evangelizing Ethiopia, Arabia, and India. of the usual three stars (signifying the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God), the outer garment of the Theotokos has three circles with the head of an angel inside each one. In this feature, it resembles the icons “In Giving Birth you Preserved your Virginity” (“A Virgin Before and After Giving Birth”) (October 17) and “O All-Hymned Mother” (October 6). Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated on October 6; Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas was born in the Galilean city of Pansada and was a fisherman. Hearing the good tidings of Jesus Christ, he left all and followed after Him. The Apostle Thomas is included in the number of the holy Twelve Apostles of the Savior. to Holy Scripture, the holy Apostle Thomas did not believe the reports of the other disciples about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25). the eighth day after the Resurrection, the Lord appeared to the Apostle Thomas and showed him His wounds. “My Lord and my God,” the Apostle cried out (John 20:28). “Thomas, being once weaker in faith than the other apostles,” says Saint John Chrysostom, “toiled through the grace of God more bravely, more zealously and tirelessly than them all, so that he went preaching over nearly all the earth, not fearing to proclaim the Word of God to savage nations.” icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” In Slavonic, it says, “The Belief of Thomas.” When Saint Thomas touched the Life-giving side of the Lord, he no longer had any doubts. to Church Tradition, the holy Apostle Thomas founded Christian churches in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Parthia, Ethiopia and India. Preaching the Gospel earned him a martyr’s death. For having converted the wife and son of the prefect of the Indian city of Meliapur [Melipur], the holy apostle was locked up in prison, suffered torture, and finally, pierced with five spears, he departed to the Lord. Part of the relics of the holy Apostle Thomas are in India, in Hungary and on Mt. Athos. The name of the Apostle Thomas is associated with the Arabian (or Arapet) Icon of the Mother of God (September 6).

Africa, East Africa, 1st Century, Apostle Matthew
Ethiopia, 1st Century, Apostle Matthew; Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated on October 6 ; Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, Commemorated on November 16;

Africa, East Africa, 100, 2nd-10th Century Folder, Arabs, Christian Axum Kingdom, Orthodox

Africa, East Africa, 100-940, Abyssinian (Ethiopian) Kingdom of Axum, Christian
East Africa, Abyssinia, 100-940, Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum, Christian; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ; Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia, Commemorated on October 24;

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 300-399, St Frumentius and Kings Ella Amida, Ezana,

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 320-333, King, Ella Amida aka Ousanas
East Africa, 320-333, King, Ella Amida aka Ousanas; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 323-383, Abyssinian Saint, Frumentius, grace of the priesthood
East Africa, Abyssinia, 323-383, Ethiopian Saint, Frumentius; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 333-356, King, Ezana of Axum
East Africa, 333-356, King, Ezana of Axum; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 500-599, 6th Century Folder, Elesbaan and Abyssinia

Africa, East Africa, Arabs, 520-540, Abyssinia, Ethiopian King, Elesbaan (Caleb or Kaleb), Christian
East Africa, Abyssinia, Ethiopian King, 520-540, Elesbaan (Caleb or Kaleb), Christian ; Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia, Commemorated on October 24; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Africa, East Africa, 900-1270, Christian Ethiopian Zagwe Dynasty

Africa, East Africa, 900-1270, Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, Christian
East Africa, Abyssinia, 900-1270, Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, Christian; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, 1137-1974, Christian Ethopian Empire, Orthodox

Africa, East Africa, Abyssinia, 1137-1974, Ethiopian Empire, Christian, Orthodox
East Africa, Abyssinia, 1137-1974, Ethiopian Empire, Christian, Orthodox; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Uganda History Folder, 1856-1979

Africa, East Africa, 1800, 19th 20th Century Folder, Uganda, Homosexual Mwanga War, British Protectorate

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1856-1884, Ugandan King, Muteesa I of Buganda
Ugandan King, 1856-1884, Muteesa I of Buganda; JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885); THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1884-1897, Ugandan King, Mwanga II of Buganda
Ugandan King, 1884-1897, Mwanga II of Buganda; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1885-1897, Homosexual War of King Mwanga
Uganda, 1885-1897, Homosexual War of King Mwanga ; JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885) ; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1894-1962, British Protectorate
Uganda, 1894-1962, British Protectorate; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Africa, East Africa, 1900, 20th Century Folder, Uganda, Milton Obote, Idi Amin

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1966-1971, President, Milton Obote
East Africa, Ugandan President, 1966-1971, Milton Obote; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1971-1979, President, Idi Amin
East Africa, Ugandan President, 1971-1979, Idi Amin; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Africa, East Africa, Sudan Folder, 1983 - 2005

Sudanese Diaspora - Martyrs of South Sudan 1983 - 2005
Sudanese Diaspora - Martyrs of South Sudan 1983 ; MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983) ; Christian bishops, chiefs, commanders, clergy and people of Sudan declared, on May 16, 1983, that they would not abandon God as God had revealed himself to them under threat of Shariah Law imposed by the fundamentalist Islamic government in Khartoum. a peace treaty was signed on January 9, 2005, the Episcopal Church of the Province of the Sudan suffered from persecution and devastation through twenty-two years of civil war. and a half million people were killed, half of whom were members of this church. Many clergy and lay leaders were singled out because of their religious leadership in their communities. buildings, including churches and schools, are left standing in an area the size of Alaska. Four million people are internally displaced, and a million are scattered around Africa and beyond in the Sudanese Diaspora. of the twenty-four dioceses exist in exile in Uganda or Kenya, and the majority of the clergy are unpaid. 5% of the population of Southern Sudan was Christian in 1983. Today over 85% of that region of six million is now mostly Episcopalian or Roman Catholic. faith rooted deeply in the mercy of God has renewed their spirits through out the years of strife and sorrow.

Africa, East Africa, Blue Nile River Folder

Blue Nile River

Blue Nile Source (Lake Tana, Ethiopia)
Blue Nile;

Blue Nile Spring Mt Gish (sacred source of the Nile)
Mt Gish Blue Nile Spring (sacred source of the Nile, at 9,000 ft elevation, in Ethiopia); Gish Abay Spring;

Blue Nile 1 (Blue Nile Falls)
Blue Nile Falls;

Blue Nile 2

Blue Nile 3

Blue Nile 4

Blue Nile 18 (Ethopia)

Blue Nile 19 (Sudan)

Blue Nile 27 (Khartoum, Nile River Source)

Africa, East Africa, White Nile Folder

White Nile River

White Nile Source (Lake Victoria)
White Nile; Lake Victoria;

White Nile 1 (Buganda and Namugongo, Uganda)

White Nile 2 (Victoria Nile section)

White Nile 3 (Albert Lake, Albert Nile section)

White Nile 4 (Sudan-Uganda Border)

White Nile 5 (Juba, Sudan)

White Nile 6

White Nile 7

White Nile 8 (Lake No, South Sudan)

White Nile 9

White Nile 10 (Sudan-Egypt border)

White Nile Mouth (Kartoum, Blue Nile, Nile River Source)

Africa, East Africa, Albert Nile Folder

Albert Nile (Semliki) River

Albert Nile Source (Lake Albert, Uganda)

Semliki River Mouth (Lake Albert)

Rwenzori Mountains

Semliki River Source (Lake Edward)

Mitumba Mountains (North Kivu)
Mitumba Mountainsl

Rutshura River

Rutshuru River Source (Lake Mutanda)

Rutshuru River Mouth (Lake Edward)

Virunga Mountains
Virunga Mountains;

Africa, East Africa, Sudan Folder

Sudan, East Africa
Sudan; FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, NURSE, RENEWER OF SOCIETY (12 AUGUST 1910); PHILIP, DEACON AND EVANGELIST (11 OCT NT); CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983);

British Empire - Sudan, East Africa
Sudan; FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, NURSE, RENEWER OF SOCIETY (12 AUGUST 1910); PHILIP, DEACON AND EVANGELIST (11 OCT NT); CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983);

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Nubia (Sudan)
Nubia; PHILIP, DEACON AND EVANGELIST (11 OCT NT);

Khartoum, Sudan, East Africa (Nile River Source, Blue Nile, White Nile)
Khartoum; FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, NURSE, RENEWER OF SOCIETY (12 AUGUST 1910); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983);

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Ethiopia, East Africa
Ethiopia; PHILIP, DEACON AND EVANGELIST (11 OCT NT); Apostle Philip of the Seventy, One of the Seven Deacons, Commemorated on October 11 ; Icon of the Mother of God Arapet (Arabian), Commemorated September 6 ; Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated October 6 ; Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia, Commemorated on October 24 ; Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, Commemorated November 16 ; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ; St Niphon the Bishop of Cyprus, Commemorated December 23 ; Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens, Commemorated on April 5;

British Empire - British Somaliland - East Africa, Gulf of Aden
British Empire - British Somaliland - East Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia History Folder

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 33-72, Apostle Thomas
Ethiopia, 1st Century, Apostle Thomas; East Africa, 1st Century, Apostle Thomas; the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told of it (as related in the Gospel of John alone); later, he confessed his faith ("My Lord and my God") on seeing Jesus' crucifixion wounds. to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of modern-day Kerala in India, Thomas is believed to have travelled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, travelling as far as the Tamilakam which is in South India.[1][5][6][7] According to their tradition, Thomas reached Muziris of Tamilakam (modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor in Kerala State, India) in AD 52.[8][9][1] In 1258, some of the relics were brought to Ortona, in Abruzzo, Italy, where they have been held in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle.[10] He is often regarded as the patron saint of India among its Christian adherents,[11][12] and the Feast of Saint Thomas on July 3 is celebrated as Indian Christian Day by believers belonging to many Christian denominations.[13][14] The name Thomas remains quite popular among the Saint Thomas Christians of the Indian subcontinent. Arapet Icon of the Mother of God, Commemorated on September 6; Arapet, or “Arabian” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared while the holy Apostle Thomas (October 6) was evangelizing Ethiopia, Arabia, and India. of the usual three stars (signifying the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God), the outer garment of the Theotokos has three circles with the head of an angel inside each one. In this feature, it resembles the icons “In Giving Birth you Preserved your Virginity” (“A Virgin Before and After Giving Birth”) (October 17) and “O All-Hymned Mother” (October 6). Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated on October 6; Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas was born in the Galilean city of Pansada and was a fisherman. Hearing the good tidings of Jesus Christ, he left all and followed after Him. The Apostle Thomas is included in the number of the holy Twelve Apostles of the Savior. to Holy Scripture, the holy Apostle Thomas did not believe the reports of the other disciples about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25). the eighth day after the Resurrection, the Lord appeared to the Apostle Thomas and showed him His wounds. “My Lord and my God,” the Apostle cried out (John 20:28). “Thomas, being once weaker in faith than the other apostles,” says Saint John Chrysostom, “toiled through the grace of God more bravely, more zealously and tirelessly than them all, so that he went preaching over nearly all the earth, not fearing to proclaim the Word of God to savage nations.” icons depicting this event are inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” In Slavonic, it says, “The Belief of Thomas.” When Saint Thomas touched the Life-giving side of the Lord, he no longer had any doubts. to Church Tradition, the holy Apostle Thomas founded Christian churches in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Parthia, Ethiopia and India. Preaching the Gospel earned him a martyr’s death. For having converted the wife and son of the prefect of the Indian city of Meliapur [Melipur], the holy apostle was locked up in prison, suffered torture, and finally, pierced with five spears, he departed to the Lord. Part of the relics of the holy Apostle Thomas are in India, in Hungary and on Mt. Athos. The name of the Apostle Thomas is associated with the Arabian (or Arapet) Icon of the Mother of God (September 6).

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 1st Century, Apostle Matthew
Ethiopia, 1st Century, Apostle Matthew; Holy, Glorious Apostle Thomas, Commemorated on October 6 ; Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, Commemorated on November 16;

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 100-940, Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum, Christian
Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum, 100-940, Christian; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 323-383, Bishop Frumentius, grace of the priesthood
Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 323-383, Bishop Frumentius, grace of the priesthood; Saint Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 323-383, Abyssinia (Ethiopian) Saint, Frumentius
East Africa, Abyssinia, 323-383, Ethiopian Saint, Frumentius; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 333-356, King, Ezana of Axum
East Africa, 333-356, King, Ezana of Axum; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated on November 30;

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 350-405, Ethiopian Saint, Moses the Black
Egyptian Saint, 350-405, Moses the Black; MOSES THE BLACK, DESERT FATHER & MARTYR, 28 August 405; Venerable Moses the Ethiopian of Scete, Commemorated on August 28;

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, 520-540, King, Elesbaan (Caleb or Kaleb), Christian
Ethiopian King, 520-540, Elesbaan (Caleb or Kaleb), Christian Kingdom of Axum (100-940); St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Aksum (Axum or Abyssinia)
Aksum (Axum or Abyssinia); Elesbaan, or Kaleb of Axum (Axum is in Eritrea. Capital of Eritrea is Aksum; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Mirmena (Asmara or Massawa), Ethiopia
Mirmena (Asmara or Massawa); Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, Commemorated on November 16;

Upper Blue Nile region (Ethiopia)
Previously, Ethiopia referred to Upper Nile region, Blue Nile and White Nile; Icon of the Mother of God Arapet (Arabian), Commemorated September 6 ; PHILIP, DEACON AND EVANGELIST (11 OCT NT); Apostle Philip of the Seventy, One of the Seven Deacons, Commemorated on October 11; Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia, Commemorated on October 24; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Abyssinia (Ethiopian Empire, Northwest Ethiopia, north of the rift, Ethiopian Highlands)
Abyssinia: the Ethiopian Empire. Ethiopian Highlands ; MOSES THE BLACK, DESERT FATHER & MARTYR, 28 August 405; St Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Commemorated November 30 ;

Afar, Ethiopia (Semera)
Afar, Ethiopia (Semara) ; St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits, Commemorated on December 19 ;

Africa, East Africa, Kenya Folder

Kenya, East Africa
Kenya; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983); ROLAND ALLEN, MISSION STRATEGIST, Commemorated June 8 ;

British Empire - Kenya, East Africa
Kenya; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983); ROLAND ALLEN, MISSION STRATEGIST, Commemorated June 8 ;

Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
Nairobi; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); ROLAND ALLEN, MISSION STRATEGIST, Commemorated June 8 ;

Amimos, Kenya, East Africa
Amimos, Kenya ; Martyr Eudoxius, Commemorated September 6 ;

Africa, East Africa, Uganda Folder

Uganda, East Africa
Uganda; JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885) ; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983); THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886) ;

British Empire - Uganda, East Africa
Uganda; JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885) ; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983); THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886) ;

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1856-1884, Ugandan King, Muteesa I of Buganda
Ugandan King, 1856-1884, Muteesa I of Buganda; JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885); THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886); 3 June 1886, thirty-two young men, pages of the court of King Mwanga of Buganda, were burned to death at Namugongo for their refusal to renounce Christianity. In the following months many other Christians throughout the country died by spear or fire for their faith. martyrdoms totally changed the dynamic of Christian growth in Uganda. Introduced by a handful of Anglican and Roman missionaries after 1877, the Christian faith had been preached only to the immediate members of the court, by order of King Mutesa. His successor, Mwanga, became increasingly angry as he realized that the first converts put loyalty to Christ above the traditional loyalty to the king. Martyrdoms began in 1885. Mwanga first forbade anyone to go near a Christian mission on pain of death, but finding himself unable to cool the ardor of the converts, resolved to wipe out Christianity. of UgandaThe Namugongo martyrdoms produced a result entirely opposite to Mwanga's intentions. The example of these martyrs, who walked to their deaths singing hymns and praying for their enemies, so inspired many of the bystanders that they began to seek instruction from the remaining Christians. Within a few years the original handful of converts had multiplied many times and spread far beyond the court. The martyrs had left the indelible impression that Christianity was truly African, not simply a white man's religion. Most of the missionary work was carried out by Africans rather than by white missionaries, and Christianity spread steadily. Uganda now has the largest percentage of professed Christians of any nation in Africa.

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1884-1897, Ugandan King, Mwanga II of Buganda
Ugandan King, 1884-1897, Mwanga II of Buganda; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886); 3 June 1886, thirty-two young men, pages of the court of King Mwanga of Buganda, were burned to death at Namugongo for their refusal to renounce Christianity. In the following months many other Christians throughout the country died by spear or fire for their faith. martyrdoms totally changed the dynamic of Christian growth in Uganda. Introduced by a handful of Anglican and Roman missionaries after 1877, the Christian faith had been preached only to the immediate members of the court, by order of King Mutesa. His successor, Mwanga, became increasingly angry as he realized that the first converts put loyalty to Christ above the traditional loyalty to the king. Martyrdoms began in 1885. Mwanga first forbade anyone to go near a Christian mission on pain of death, but finding himself unable to cool the ardor of the converts, resolved to wipe out Christianity. of UgandaThe Namugongo martyrdoms produced a result entirely opposite to Mwanga's intentions. The example of these martyrs, who walked to their deaths singing hymns and praying for their enemies, so inspired many of the bystanders that they began to seek instruction from the remaining Christians. Within a few years the original handful of converts had multiplied many times and spread far beyond the court. The martyrs had left the indelible impression that Christianity was truly African, not simply a white man's religion. Most of the missionary work was carried out by Africans rather than by white missionaries, and Christianity spread steadily. Uganda now has the largest percentage of professed Christians of any nation in Africa.

Africa, East Africa, Uganda, 1885-1897, Homosexual War of King Mwanga
Uganda, 1885-1897, Homosexual War of King Mwanga ; Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa (1868 - 8 May 1903)[1] was Kabaka of Buganda from 1884 until 1888 and from 1889 until 1897. He was the 31st Kabaka of Buganda. 1 Claim to the throne 2 Reign 3 Final years 4 Married life 5 Issue 6 Quotes 6.1 Quotes about Mwanga II 7 Succession table: First time 8 Succession table: Second time 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links to the throne[edit] was born at Nakawa in 1868. His father was Muteesa I of Buganda, who reigned between 1856 and 1884. His mother was Abakyala Abisagi Bagalayaze, the 10th of his father's 85 wives. ascended to the throne on 18 October 1884, after the death of his father. He established his capital on Mengo Hill. Mwanga on stained glass at Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine. came to the throne at the age of 16. He increasingly regarded the greatest threat to his rule coming from the Christian missionaries who had gradually penetrated Buganda . His father had played-off the three religions, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims, against each other and thus balanced the influence of the European colonial powers that were backing each group in order to extend their reach into Africa. Mwanga II took a much more aggressive approach, expelling missionaries and insisting that Christian converts abandon their faith or face death. A year after becoming king he executed Yusufu Rugarama, Makko Kakumba, and Nuuwa Sserwanga, who had converted to Christianity. On 29 October 1885, he had the incoming archbishop James Hannington assassinated on the eastern border of his kingdom. Mwanga, the ultimate humiliation was the insolence he received from the (male) pages of his harem when they resisted his sexual advances. According to old tradition the king was the centre of power and authority, and he could dispense with any life as he felt. It was unheard of for mere pages to reject the wishes of a king. Given those conflicting values Mwanga was determined to rid his kingdom of the new teaching and its followers. Mwanga therefore precipitated a showdown in May 1886 by ordering converts in his court to choose between their new faith and complete obedience to his orders and kingdom.[2] is believed that at least 30 Catholic and Protestant neophytes went to their deaths.[citation needed] Twenty-two of the men, who had converted to Catholicism, were burned alive at Namugongo in 1886 and later became known as the Uganda Martyrs. Among those executed were two Christians who held the court position of Master of the Pages, Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe and Charles Lwanga. They had repeatedly defied the king by rescuing royal pages in their care from sexual exploitation by Mwanga which they believed contrary to Christian teaching.[3] murders and Mwanga's continued resistance alarmed the British, who backed a rebellion by Christian and Muslim groups who supported Mwanga's half brother and defeated Mwanga at Mengo in 1888. Mwanga's brother, Kiweewa Nnyonyintono, was elevated to the throne. He lasted exactly one month and was replaced on the throne by another brother, Kabaka Kalema Muguluma. However, Mwanga escaped and negotiated with the British. In exchange for handing over some of his sovereignty to the British East Africa Company, the British changed their backing to Mwanga, who swiftly removed Kalema from the throne in 1889. He later converted to Christianity and was baptised. years[edit] 26 December 1890, Mwanga signed a treaty with Lord Lugard, granting certain powers over revenue, trade and the administration of justice to the Imperial British East Africa Company. These powers were transferred to the crown on 1 April 1893. 27 August 1894, Mwanga accepted for Buganda to become a Protectorate. However, on 6 July 1897 he declared war on the British and launched an attack but was defeated on 20 July 1897, in Buddu (in today's Masaka District). He fled into German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania), where he was arrested and interned at Bukoba. was deposed in absentia on 9 August 1897. Tenacious as he was, he escaped and returned to Buganda with a rebel army, but was again defeated on 15 January 1898. He was captured and in April 1899 was exiled to the Seychelles. While in exile, he was received into the Anglican Church and was baptized with the name of Danieri (Daniel). He spent the rest of his life in exile. He died in the Seychelles on 8 May 1903, aged 34 or 35. On 2 August 1910, his remains were repatriated and buried at Kasubi.[1] JAMES HANNINGTON AND THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (29 OCT 1885) ; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886); 3 June 1886, thirty-two young men, pages of the court of King Mwanga of Buganda, were burned to death at Namugongo for their refusal to renounce Christianity. In the following months many other Christians throughout the country died by spear or fire for their faith. martyrdoms totally changed the dynamic of Christian growth in Uganda. Introduced by a handful of Anglican and Roman missionaries after 1877, the Christian faith had been preached only to the immediate members of the court, by order of King Mutesa. His successor, Mwanga, became increasingly angry as he realized that the first converts put loyalty to Christ above the traditional loyalty to the king. Martyrdoms began in 1885. Mwanga first forbade anyone to go near a Christian mission on pain of death, but finding himself unable to cool the ardor of the converts, resolved to wipe out Christianity. of UgandaThe Namugongo martyrdoms produced a result entirely opposite to Mwanga's intentions. The example of these martyrs, who walked to their deaths singing hymns and praying for their enemies, so inspired many of the bystanders that they began to seek instruction from the remaining Christians. Within a few years the original handful of converts had multiplied many times and spread far beyond the court. The martyrs had left the indelible impression that Christianity was truly African, not simply a white man's religion. Most of the missionary work was carried out by Africans rather than by white missionaries, and Christianity spread steadily. Uganda now has the largest percentage of professed Christians of any nation in Africa.

Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
Kampala, Uganda; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Namugongo, Uganda
Namugongo; THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Buganda, Central Uganda, East Africa
Buganda; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977); THE MARTYRS OF UGANDA, (3 JUNE 1886);

Northern Uganda, East Africa
Northern Uganda; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Acholi tribe, Northern Uganda, South Sudan, East Africa
Acholi tribe, Northern Uganda, South Sudan, East Africa; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977) ; Lord's Resistance Army; MARTYRS OF SUDAN, (16 May 1983)

Lango Tribe, Northern Uganda, East Africa
Lango; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977) ;

Buwalasi Theological College, Sironko District, Uganda, East Africa
Buwalasi Theological College, Sironko District, Uganda, East Africa; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Africa, East Africa, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania Folder

Rwanda, East Africa
Rwanda, East Africa; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Burundi, East Africa
Burundi, East Africa; JANANI LUWUM, ARCHBISHOP OF UGANDA, MARTYR (16 FEB 1977);

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (19,341 ft or 5,895 meters)
Mount Kilimanjaro;

East African Community (EAC), Tanzania
East Africa; ROLAND ALLEN, MISSION STRATEGIST, Commemorated June 8 ;

British Empire - Tanganyika, Tanzania, East Africa, Zanzibar, Indian Ocean
British Empire - Tanganyika, Tanzania, East Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - British Indian Ocean Territory - halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia
British Empire - British Indian Ocean Territory - ; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Zanzibar, Indian Ocean Islands right next to Tanganyika, East Africa
British Empire - Zanzibar, Indian Ocean Island right next to Tanganyika, East Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Seychelles - Islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa
British Empire - Seychelles - Islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836)

Mitumba Mountains Mt Kahuzi 10,850 ft
Mitumba Mountains Mt Kahuzi

Ruzizi River

Ruzizi River Source (Lake Kivu)

Ruzizi River Mouth (Lake Tanganyika)

Africa, West Africa Folder

West Africa
West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Africa, West Africa 1200-Present, Folder, Niger River History

Africa, West Africa, 1200, 13th 14th Centurys Folder, Mali Empire

Niger River, 1235-1600, Mali Empire
Niger River, 1235-1600, Mali Empire;

Africa, West Africa, 1400, 15th 16th Century Folder, Songhai Empire

Niger River, 1464-1591, Songhai Empire, Gao the capital
Niger River, 1464-1591, Songhai Empire, Gao the capital ;

Africa, West Africa, 1600, 17th- 19th Century Folder, Bamana Empire

Niger River, 1640-1861, Bamana Empire
Niger River, 1640-1861, Bamana Empire ;

Africa, West Africa, 1700, 18th-19th Century Folder, Fulani Imamate of Futa Jallon, Sunni, Slave Traders

Niger River, 1725-1896, Fulani Imamate of Futa Jallon, Sunni
Niger River, 1725-1896, Fulani Imamate of Futa Jallon, Sunni ; of Futa Jallon or Jalon (French: Fouta Djallon; Pular: Fuuta Jaloo or Fuuta Jalon)[1] was a West African theocratic state based in the Fouta Djallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded around 1727 by a Fulani jihad and became part of the French Third Republic's colonial empire in 1896. 1 Origin 2 Organization 3 Dominance 4 Decline 5 See also 6 References section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Fouta Djallon region was settled by the semi-nomadic FulÉ“e over successive generations between the 13th and 16th centuries. Initially, they followed a traditional African religion.[citation needed] In the 16th century an influx of Muslim FulÉ“e from Macina, Mali changed the fabric of Fula society. in the Imamate of Futa Toro, the Muslim and traditionalist Fula of Futa Jallon lived side-by-side. Then, according to traditional accounts, a 17th-century holy war erupted. In 1725, the Muslim FulÉ“e took complete control of Futa Jallon after the battle of Talansan and set up the first of many Fula theocratic states to come. Karamokho Alfa was appointed Emir al-Mu'minin ("Commander of the Faithful") and first Almami of the Imamate of Futa Jalon. He died in 1751 and was succeeded by Emir Ibrahim Sori, who consolidated the power of the Islamic state. Futa Jallon's theocratic model would later inspire the Fula state of Futa Toro. new Imamate of Futa Jallon was governed under a strict interpretation of Sharia with a central ruler in the city of Timbo, near present-day Mamou. The Imamate contained nine provinces called diwe, which all held a certain amount of autonomy. These diwe were: Timbo, Timbi, Labè, Koîn, Kolladhè, Fugumba, Kèbaly, Fodé Hadji and Murya, Massi. The meeting of the rulers of these diwè at Timbi decided to introduce Alpha Ibrahima from Timbo as first Almamy Fuuta Jallonke with residence at Timbo. Timbo then became the capital of Fuuta Jallon until the arrival of French colonialists. The objective of the constitution of this Imamate was to convince local communities to become Muslim. It became a regional power through war and negotiation, wielding influence and generating wealth. As a sovereign state, it dealt with France and other European powers as a diplomatic peer while championing artistic and literary achievement in Islamic learning at centers such as the holy city of Fugumba. Muslims of Futa Jallon became divided into factions. The clerical faction took the name of the Alfaya out of respect to the legacy of Karamokho Alfa, while the secular faction called themselves the Soriya after his successor Ibrahima Sori. two factions came to an agreement that power should alternate between leaders of the two factions.[2] The rulers of the two cities of Timbo and Fugumba were descended from the same original family, and later all competition for the position of almami was between these two cities.[3] Africa circa 1875 Imamate of Futa Jallon became a multiethnic, multilingual society,[citation needed] ruled by Muslim FulÉ“e and backed by powerful free and slave armies. The FulÉ“e of Futa Jallon and Futa Toro were able to take advantage of the growing Atlantic slave trade with the Europeans on the coast, particularly the French and Portuguese. The twin Fula states also supplied valuable grain, cattle and other goods to their European neighbors on the coast. The Almaami would demand gifts in return for trade rights and could enforce his will with a well-supplied army. In 1865, Futa Jallon supported an invasion of the Mandinka kingdom of Kaabu, resulting in its demise at the Battle of Kansala in 1867. It conquered the remnants of the Kingdom of Jolof in central Senegambia in 1875. French were not satisfied with mere dominance of the coast and increasingly one-sided trade with the Fulbe. They began making inroads into Futa Jallon by capitalizing on its internal struggles. Finally, in 1896, at the Battle of Porédaka, the French defeated the last Almaami of Futa Jallon, Bokar Biro. SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Africa, West Africa, 1800, 19th Century Folder, Fulani War, Massina, Toucouleur, and Wassoulou Empires, French w Barnana

Africa, West Africa, 1804-1808, Fulani War, Sokoto Caliphate
Fulani War; Fulani War of 1804–1808, also known as the Fulani Jihad or Jihad of Usman dan Fodio, was a military conflict in present-day Nigeria and Cameroon. The war began when Usman Danfodiyo, a prominent Islamic scholar and teacher, was exiled from Gobir by the King Yunfa, one of his former students. Danfodiyo assembled a Islamics army to lead in jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms of the north of Nigeria. The forces of Usman Danfodiyo slowly took over more and more of the Hausa kingdoms, capturing Gobir in 1808 and executing Yunfa. The war resulted in the creation of the Sokoto Caliphate, headed by Usman Danfodiyo, which became one of the largest states in Africa in the 19th century. His success inspired similar jihads in Western Africa. 1 Background 2 Lead up to war 3 Battles 4 Founding of the Sokoto Caliphate 5 Legacy 6 See also 7 References Background[edit] Kanem-Bornu Empire had been in decline in the area from the mid-18th century. The result was the rise of a number of independent Hausa kingdoms throughout the region. Two prominent Hausa kingdoms were Gobir and Zamfara. However, warfare between the Hausa states and with other states were constant for the latter 18th century, resulting in a harsh system of conscription and taxation.[1] The Fulani, a largely pastoral people, were often the victims of Hausa taxation, land control, and other feudal practices.[2] up to war[edit] dan Fodio, born in 1754, joined a growing number of traveling Islamic scholars through the Hausa kingdoms in the 1770s and became quite popular in the 1790s.[1] Originally, dan Fodio's preaching received the support of the leadership of Gobir; however, as his influence increased and as he began to advocate for self-defense arming by his followers, his favor with the leadership decreased. Sarkin Gobir Nafata, the king of Gobir, placed a series of restrictions on dan Fodio's preaching.[1] In 1801, Sarkin Gobir Yunfa, a former pupil of dan Fodio, replaced Nafata as king of Gobir. However, Yunfa increased the restrictions on dan Fodio and exiled him from Gobir to the village of Degel. A crisis developed later in 1803 when Yunfa attacked and captured many of the followers of a group associated with dan Fodio. Yunfa then marched the prisoners through Degel, enraging many of dan Fodio's followers, who attacked the army and freed the prisoners. Yunfa gave dan Fodio the option of exile before destroying Degel, which led to the large-scale hijra of dan Fodio's community to Gudu. So many people went with dan Fodio throughout the state that on February 21, 1804, Yunfa declared war on dan Fodio and threatened punishment to anyone joining him.[1] Followers of dan Fodio declared him to be the Amir al-Mu'minin, commander of the faithful, and denounced their allegiance to Gobir. minor skirmishes preceded the forces meeting at the Battle of Tsuntua. Although Yunfa was victorious and dan Fodio lost a number of men, the battle did not diminish his force. He retaliated by capturing the village of Matankari, which resulted in the battle of Tafkin Kwattoa, a major action between Yunfa and dan Fodio's forces. Although outnumbered, dan Fodio's troops were able to prevent Yunfa from advancing on Gunu and thus convince larger numbers of people to join his forces.[1] 1805, the forces of dan Fodio, the jihadists, captured the Hausa kingdom of Kebbi. By 1807, the jihadists had taken over the states of Katsina, Daura, and Kano. In 1808, the jihadists captured Gobir, killing Yunfa in the battle.[1] the capture of Gobir, the jihadists saw that they were part of a wider regional struggle. They continued with battles against a number of Hausa kingdoms, and the Sokoto Caliphate expanded over the next two years. The last major expansion of the jihadists was the toppling of the Sayfawa dynasty in 1846.[1] of the Sokoto Caliphate[edit] Bello, the son of Usman dan Fodio, transformed the semi-permanent camp of Sokoto into a city in 1809, during the Fulani war.[3] Dan Fodio ruled from Sokoto as the religious leader of the Fulani jihad states from that point until 1815, when he retired from administrative duties.[1] The Caliphate appointed various Emirs to govern the various states of the empire. These men were often veterans of the Fulani wars.[2] success of the jihad inspired a number of later West African jihadists, including Massina Empire founder Seku Amadu, Toucouleur Empire founder Umar Tall, Wassoulou Empire founder Samori Ture, and Adamawa Emirate founder Modibo Adama. Sokoto Caliphate has continued to the present. Since the British conquest of the Caliphate in 1903, and later Nigerian independence under a constitutional government in 1960, the Caliphate's political authority has diminished. But the position still has considerable spiritual authority. Land of the Fulani People is a 1,000 mile wide streach of land across Africa south of the Sahara Desert; Muslim Fulani Slave Raiders; Portuguese slave traders; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ;

Niger River, 1818-1862, Massina Empire
Niger River, 1818-1862, Massina Empire ;

Niger River, 1848-1893, Toucouleur Empire
Niger River, 1848-1893, Toucouleur Empire;

Niger River, Massina Almami, 1818-1845, Seku Amadu. Massina Empire Founder
Niger River, Massina Almami, 1818-1845, Seku Amadu. Massina Empire Founder; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Niger River, 1878-1898, Wassoulou Empire, Sunni Islam, Mandinka people
Niger River, 1878-1898, Wassoulou Empire, Sunni Islam, Mandinka people ; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Niger River, Fulani Iman, 1890-1896, Bokar Biro, Sunni
Niger River, Fulani Iman, 1890-1896, Bokar Biro, Sunni; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Niger River, 1893-1900, The French allied with Bamana Empire
Niger River, 1893-1893, The French allied with Bamana Empire; Niger River, 1640-1861, Bamana Empire ; The French Scramble for Africa

Africa, West Africa, 1900, 20th Century Folder, French Colony of Niger, 1930 Revival

Niger River, 1900-1960, The French Colony of Niger
Niger River, 1900-1960, The French Colony of Niger;

Niger River Mouth, Ogun River, The Great Revival of 1930
The Great Revival of 1930 ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Africa, West Africa, Liberia, Saint Paul, Mesurado and Cavalla Rivers Folder, Liberia

Liberia, West Africa
Liberia; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2 ; ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, PRIEST, MISSIONARY, EDUCATOR (10 SEP 1898); SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Saint Paul River

Saint Paul River Source (Guinea Highlands)
Saint Paul River;

Nimba Range of Guinea Highlands
Guinea Highlands;

Saint Paul River Mouth (Atlantic Ocean)

Mesurado River

Mesurado River Source

Cuttington University, Liberia
Cuttington University; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2 ;

Mesurado River 1

Mesurado River 2

Mesurado River Mouth and Cape

Liberia College
Liberia College; ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, PRIEST, MISSIONARY, EDUCATOR (10 SEP 1898) ;

Monrovia, Liberia
Monrovia; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2 ;

Cavalla River

Cavalla River Source (Guinea Highlands)

Cavalla River 1

Cavalla River 2

Cavalla River 3

Cavalla River Mouth (Cape Palmas, Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Palmas, Liberia (Cavalla River Mouth, Atlantic Ocean)
Cape Palmas; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2 ;

Africa, West Africa, Guiana Rivers Folder, Sierra Leone and Freetown

Guiana River 1 Boke River

Guiana River 2 Telimele River

Guiana River 3 Telimele River

Guiana River 4 Fria River

Guiana River 5 Kindia River

Guiana River 6 Pita River

Guiana River 7 Koullan River

Guiana River 8

Guiana River 9

Guiana River 10

Guiana River 11 Kindia River

Freetown, Sierra Leone
Freetown, Sierra Leone; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

British Empire - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Sierra Leone; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Guiana River 15 Farmoyeya River

Africa, West Africa, Fulani Folder, Upper Niger River

Fulani, Land of the Fulani People (Sierra Leone, Timbuktu, Upper Niger River)
Land of the Fulani People is a 1,000 mile wide streach of land across Africa south of the Sahara Desert; Muslim Fulani Slave Raiders; Portuguese slave traders; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Niger River

Niger River Source (Guinea Highlands)
Guinea Highlands;

Niger River 1

Niger River 2

Niger River 3 (Inland Delta)

Niger River (Overview)

Niger River 4 (Timbuktu)

Timbuktu (Niger River 4)
Timbuktu; Muslim Fulani Slave Raiders; Portuguese slave traders; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ;

Niger River 5

Kaduna River Mouth (Niger River)

Niger Delta or Mouth (Gulf of Guinea)

Africa, West Africa, Niger River Folder

Africa, West Africa, Niger River 3, Bani River Folder

Bani River

Bani River Source (Baoule and Bagoe Rivers Convergence)

Bani River 1

Bani River 2

Bani River 3

Bani River Mouth (Niger River 3)

Africa, West Africa, Niger River 6, Sokoto River Folder

Sokoto River

Sokoto River Source
Sokoto River

Fulani Empire (Upper Niger River)
Fulani Empire; Muslim Fulani Slave Raiders; Portuguese slave traders; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ;

Sokoto River 1

Fulani Capital

Sokoto River Mouth (Niger River 6)

Africa, West Africa, Niger River 8, Benue (Chadda) River Folder

Benue (Chadda) River

Benue (Chadda) River Source (Adamawa Plateau)
Benue River; Adamawa Plateau ;

Benue (Chadda) River 1

Benue (Chadda) River 2

Benue (Chadda) River 3

Benue (Chadda) River Mouth (Niger River 8)

NIGER TERRITORIES, Niger Delta, Between Forcados and Brasse Rivers
NIGER TERRITORIES, Niger Delta, Between Forcados and Brasse Rivers; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Forcados River

Brasse River

Africa, West Africa, Niger River Mouth, Ogun River Folder

Nigeria
Nigeria; Land of the Fulani People is a 1,000 mile wide streach of land across Africa south of the Sahara Desert; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

British Empire - Nigeria - Ogun River, West Africa
Nigeria; Land of the Fulani People is a 1,000 mile wide streach of land across Africa south of the Sahara Desert; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Yorubaland (Nigeria, Benin andTogo)
Yorubaland (Nigeria, Benin andTogo); Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Ogun River

Ogun River Source (near Shaki)

Kwara State, Nigeria (Ogun River Source, Niger River 7)
Kwara State, Nigeria ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Ogun River 1 (Ikere Gorge Dam)

Osogun, Yorubaland (Ogun River 1)
Osogun, Yorubaland; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31;

Ogun River 2 (Abeokuta)

Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State
Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Joseph Ayo Babalola University, 2006
Joseph Ayo Babalola University; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT; Ayo Babalola (25 April 1904 – 26 July 1959) was the first General Evangelist of the Christ Apostolic Church, popularly called CAC in Nigeria. He was credited with healing powers. life was born of Yoruba parents at Odo-Owa, Kwara State, Nigeria.[1] He was brought up as an Anglican. He was registered at an elementary school at Oto-Awori on Badagry Road, Lagos State, in 1914.[1] He got to standard four, before he became a blacksmith's apprentice and he learned it for two years, before he became a steamroller operator under the PWD (Public Works Department), then under the control of Great Britain, learning to become a steamroller driver. After 15 days of learning to drive the caterpillar, he was able to drive it without any assistance. After nine months; he became a master in his class. A steamroller was first given to him on 1 April 1928 to work on the Osogbo – Ilesha road. On June 14, 1928, he was transferred to Akure – Ilesha road.[1] Babalola was baptized in Lagos lagoon in December 1929.[2][3] Ministry and healing 1931 Faith Tabernacle affiliated with The Apostolic Church with general headquarters in the United Kingdom (and not British Apostolic Church, as erroneously called by some authors).[4] Then following a schism in The Apostolic Church about 1940, Babalola went with a group led by Pastors J.B. Akinyele and D.O. Odubanjo to form a new independent church,[5] Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), where he continued his healing and revivalistic activities until his death. The CAC regards Babalola as an apostle, while in actual sense by real church ordination he was not at any time historically ordained into that office. A CAC retreat center was built at Ipo Arakeji, Osun State where Babalola was first called in 1928. However, Babalola was not the sole founder of CAC as many claims today but one of the trio of CAC Founding Fathers.[6] Christ Apostolic Church has not died along with Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola in 1959. In fact, it has grown rapidly over the years, with many churches under the Christ Apostolic Church name but each church with a specific branch name. The Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) a private Nigerian university located in Ipo Arakeji and Ikeji-Arakeji, two neighbouring communities in Osun State, established by the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide is named after him, located at the place where he says he was called by God in 1928. He was buried at Erekesan street at the Mausoleum in Efon Alaaye town in Ekiti state.

Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
Akure, Nigeria; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Akure-Ilesha road
Akure-“ Ilesha road Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Wesley Hospital, Ilesa
Wesley Hospital, Ilesa; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Osogbo, Nigeria
Osogbo, Nigeria; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Osogbo-Ilesa Road
Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Abeokuta, Nigeria (Ogun River 2)
Abeokuta; SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER, BISHOP IN THE NIGER TERRITORIES, 1891, Commemorated December 31 ;

Ogun River Mouth (Lagos Lagoon)

Lagos State, Nigeria
Lagos State, Nigeria ; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT, 1959, Commemorated July 26;

Christ Apostolic Church, Logos, Nigeria
Christ Apostolic Church, Logos, Nigeria; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT; Ayo Babalola (25 April 1904 – 26 July 1959) was the first General Evangelist of the Christ Apostolic Church, popularly called CAC in Nigeria. He was credited with healing powers. life was born of Yoruba parents at Odo-Owa, Kwara State, Nigeria.[1] He was brought up as an Anglican. He was registered at an elementary school at Oto-Awori on Badagry Road, Lagos State, in 1914.[1] He got to standard four, before he became a blacksmith's apprentice and he learned it for two years, before he became a steamroller operator under the PWD (Public Works Department), then under the control of Great Britain, learning to become a steamroller driver. After 15 days of learning to drive the caterpillar, he was able to drive it without any assistance. After nine months; he became a master in his class. A steamroller was first given to him on 1 April 1928 to work on the Osogbo – Ilesha road. On June 14, 1928, he was transferred to Akure – Ilesha road.[1] Babalola was baptized in Lagos lagoon in December 1929.[2][3] Ministry and healing 1931 Faith Tabernacle affiliated with The Apostolic Church with general headquarters in the United Kingdom (and not British Apostolic Church, as erroneously called by some authors).[4] Then following a schism in The Apostolic Church about 1940, Babalola went with a group led by Pastors J.B. Akinyele and D.O. Odubanjo to form a new independent church,[5] Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), where he continued his healing and revivalistic activities until his death. The CAC regards Babalola as an apostle, while in actual sense by real church ordination he was not at any time historically ordained into that office. A CAC retreat center was built at Ipo Arakeji, Osun State where Babalola was first called in 1928. However, Babalola was not the sole founder of CAC as many claims today but one of the trio of CAC Founding Fathers.[6] Christ Apostolic Church has not died along with Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola in 1959. In fact, it has grown rapidly over the years, with many churches under the Christ Apostolic Church name but each church with a specific branch name. The Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) a private Nigerian university located in Ipo Arakeji and Ikeji-Arakeji, two neighbouring communities in Osun State, established by the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide is named after him, located at the place where he says he was called by God in 1928. He was buried at Erekesan street at the Mausoleum in Efon Alaaye town in Ekiti state.

Badagry, Nigeria (Ogun River Mouth)
Badagry, Nigeria; Joseph Ayo Babalola, PENTECOSTAL SAINT;

Africa, West Africa, 18 Countries of West Africa Filder

Benin, West Africa
Benin, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Burkina Faso, West Africa
Burkina Faso, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Cape Verde, West Africa
Cape Verde, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Gambia, West Africa
Gambia, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Gambia, West Africa
Gambia, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Ghana, West Africa
Ghana, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Ghana School of Law
Ghana School of Law; PAULI MURRAY, PRIEST (1 July 1985);

Guinea, West Africa
Guinea, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Guinea-Bissau, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Ivory Coast, West Africa
Ivory Coast, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Liberia, West Africa
Liberia, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Mali, West Africa
Mali, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Mauritania, West Africa
Mauritania, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Niger, West Africa
Niger, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Nigeria, West Africa
Nigeria, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Nigeria, West Africa
Nigeria, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Saint Helena, West Africa
Saint Helena, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

British Empire - Saint Helena Island, Southern Atlantic Ocean off West Africa
Saint Helena, West Africa ; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836);

Senegal, West Africa
Senegal, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Sierra Leone, West Africa
Sierra Leone, West Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

British Empire - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Sierra Leone, West Africa; CHARLES SIMEON, TEACHER, PROMOTOR OF MISSIONARY WORK (12 NOV 1836); SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Sao Tome and Principe, West Africa
Sao Tome and Principe, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;

Togo, West Africa
Togo, West Africa; SAMUEL FERGUSON, MISSIONARY BISHOP FOR WEST AFRICA, 1916, Commemorated August 2;