Ancient African Art
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Along the coast, in East Africa, Islamic and Indian influence beginning about 1000 AD led people to create art in an Indian-Islamic-African style.
San rock art
In south Africa, the San people painted rock art onto the walls of caves.
Djenne figurine from West Africa (ca. 1450 AD)
Further north again, in West Africa, people molded ceramic and bronze and brass sculptures by about 700 AD, continuing until around 1500 AD.
After people began to trade regularly across the Sahara Desert, West African people again built cities and mosques at the end of the trade routes for gold and slaves, especially at Timbuktu (in modern Mali).
And in North Africa (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), first the Carthaginians built cities, and then the Romans, and then the Arabs.
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