ABSTRACT
African history comprises one general African tradition and two principal invasions. Overlays of European Christian traditions and Arab Islamic traditions have given Africa a complex cultural array of ideas. The advent of the civilizing mission had been established long before the first corps of soldiers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Europe. Occupying Africa was the prime instrument of complete control, and nowhere was this practiced more than on the coast of Cameroon. The people of Africa resisted as much as they could the invading presence of the European armies of missionaries and merchants. The great silent majority of Egyptians, black people who remained convinced that their ancient religion was correct, were not considered in the equation of power. The Copts were a mixed people who had maintained the Egyptian language with Greek alphabets. The people of Egypt wanted the Muslims to enter the country in an effort to rid themselves of the Roman oppressors.
