Editing History of Africa (section)

===Central Africa===
====The central Sahel and Cameroon====
{{Main|Kanem Empire|Bilala people#History|Wadai Empire|Sao civilisation|Tikar people#History|Bamileke people#History}}

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In northern modern-day [[Nigeria]], [[Kano Chronicle|Hausa tradition]] holds that [[Bayajidda]] came to [[Daura]] in the 9th century, and his descendants founded the [[Hausa Kingdoms|kingdoms]] of [[Daura]], [[Kingdom of Kano|Kano]], [[Rano]], [[History of Katsina|Katsina]], [[Gobir]], [[Zazzau]], and [[Hadejia|Biram]] in the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries, with his bastard descendants founding [[Hausa Kingdoms|various others]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Administration|date=2020-01-10|title=Bayajidda HAUSA Historical Legend Myth or Reality|url=https://www.csan-niger.com/bayajidda-hausa-historical-legend-myth-or-reality.php|access-date=2024-07-07|website=CSAN Niger|language=French}}</ref> While the historical validity of these legends is unknowable, the Arab geographer [[al-Yaqubi]], writing in 872/873 CE (AH 259), describes a kingdom called "HBShH" with a city named "ThBYR" located between the Niger and the [[Kanem–Bornu Empire]] which may refer to Hausa.{{sfn|Levtzion|Hopkins|2000|p=21}}

====The Congo Basin====
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Following the Bantu migrations, a period of state and class formation began circa 700 with four centres; one in the west around [[Pool Malebo]], one south around the [[Geography of Angola|highlands of Angola]], a third north-central around [[Lake Mai-Ndombe]], and a fourth in the far southeast in the [[Upemba Depression]].<ref name=":02">{{Citation|title=The Development of States in West Central Africa to 1540|date=2020|work=A History of West Central Africa to 1850|pages=16–55|editor-last=Thornton|editor-first=John K.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/history-of-west-central-africa-to-1850/development-of-states-in-west-central-africa-to-1540/CE71122CF8DFD7B4B188BA34F8F65BFC|access-date=2024-09-21|series=New Approaches to African History|place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-56593-7}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=17–18}}

In the Upemba Depression social stratification and governance began to form after the 10th century based on villages.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|pages=18–19}}