https://kandaka.com/category/history/Recent content in History on KandakaHugoenSat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/history/karanog-dongola-throne-hall/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/history/karanog-dongola-throne-hall/A lost Meroitic cemetery and Old Dongola's surviving Mosque Building reveal how Nubian communities selected, adapted and maintained the forms of a connected world.https://kandaka.com/history/funj-sultanate/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/history/funj-sultanate/For three centuries the Funj Sultanate of Sennar ruled a Nile Valley empire stretching from the Third Cataract to Ethiopia. What it built, why it collapsed, and what its rise and fall still teach a country rebuilding itself today.https://kandaka.com/history/kandaka-nubian-queens/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/history/kandaka-nubian-queens/The Kandakat — Nubia's warrior queens — ran one of the ancient world's most sophisticated economies: an iron industry that earned Meroe the title 'Birmingham of Africa', trade networks stretching from Rome to sub-Saharan Africa, and a state that negotiated with empires as an equal. Sudan is not a country learning development. It is a civilisation that was interrupted.https://kandaka.com/development/history-of-modern-sudan-collins/Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kandaka.com/development/history-of-modern-sudan-collins/The most comprehensive English-language political history of Sudan from Muhammad Ali's 1821 conquest through the post-independence era. Essential background for understanding how colonial and post-colonial institutional failures produced Sudan's recurring development crises.