Great Zimbabwe
- Information about the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, as well as rock painting dating back 30,000 years.
- http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/africa/zimbabwe/greatzim.htm

Songhay
- Brief discussion of the Songhay people at Civilizations in Africa.
- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SONGHAY.HTM

The Mwenemutapa (Great Zimbabwe)
- Overview of one of the first of the centralized states in southeastern Africa and part of the Bantu-speaking culture.
- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MWEN.HTM

The Swahili Kingdoms
- Short discussion of Swahili civilizations at Civilizations in Africa.
- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM

The World of the Mande
- History, art and ritual in the Mande culture, including discussions of caste and class, roles, and cosmogony.
- http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/man.html

Christians in Ethiopia
- The beginning of Christianity in the Kingdom of Aksum and its subsequent spread throughout Ethiopia.
- http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/africa-l.htm

Axum
- Brief history of Axum and the Aksumites, located in the Ethiopian highlands near the Red Sea.
- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM

African Empires
- A timeline from 1st - 15th centuries AD/CE, from Central Oregon Community College.
- http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm