East Africa

The treaty he signed in Amharic said one thing and the Italian version said another, and whether he was deceived or simply miscalculated is still argued over.

1896

More than double the number Egypt built, these pyramids survived a nineteenth-century treasure hunter who demolished forty of them from the top down searching for gold.

A guerrilla war fought by Tutsi exiles trying to go home hardened, over four years of stalled peace talks, into the conditions for the genocide that overtook it.

1994

Fourteen nations sat down in Berlin in 1884 to divide a continent, and not one African government was invited to the table, or even seriously considered for one.