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The first human presence in Ivory Coast has been difficult to determine because human remains have not been well preserved in the country’s humid climate. However, newly found weapon and tool fragments (specifically polished axes cut through shale and remnants of cooking and fishing) have been interpreted as a possible indication of a large human presence during the upper Paleolithic period (15,000 to 10,000 BC), or at the minimum, the Neolithic period.
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Rougerie, Gabriel (1978), L’Encyclopédie générale de la Côte d’Ivoire (in French), Abidjan

The Lango people live in north central Uganda. The region covers the area formerly Lango District until 1974, when it was split into the districts of Apac and Lira, and subsequently into several additional districts. The current Lango Region now includes the districts of Amolatar, Alebtong, Apac, Dokolo, Kole, Lira, Oyam, and Otuke.
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A Lango chief with elaborate headdress. Photo published in 1902.
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Tarantino, A (1949). Lango clans. Makerere University Library: The Uganda Journal.

The hunter-gatherer Sān are along the oldest cultures on Earth, and are thought to be descended from the first inhabitants of what is now Botswana and South Africa. The Historical presence of the Sān in Botswana is particularly evident in northern Botswana’s Tsodilo Hills region. In this area, stone tools and rock art paintings date back over 70,000 years and are by far the oldest known art.
Sān were traditionally semi-nomadic, moving seasonally within certain defined areas based on the availability of resources such as water, game animals, and eligible plants.
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Coulson, Sheila (12 February 2012). World Oldest Ritual Discovered. Worshipped the Python 70,000 Years Ago (Report). Apollon Research Magazine.

Ibrahim Njoya is credited with developing the Bamum script, a semi-syllabic system for writing in the Bamum language. Before his reign, the long history of the Bamum people was preserved primarily through oral transmission. Recognizing the inherent danger of important historical facts being omitted or corrupted, he set out to establish a means of written recording of Bamum history. When his work was completed, his alphabet, called, A-ka-u-ku based on its first four signs, contained 73 signs in total. After initially starting the project in the 1980s, his grandson, Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, the latest ruler in the Bamoun Dynasty, has continued the transition of the palace into a museum, in which school children are learning the Bamum script developed by Ibrahim Njoya.
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Fomine, Forka, Leypey Mathew (2012). “A Concise Historical Survey of the Bamum Dynasty and the influence of Islam in Foumban, Cameroon, 1390 –Present”. The African Anthropologist. 16:92