Africa!

Read : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Ashanti

Perhaps, the history of Africa is mostly unknown to the rest of the world.
Recently, President Obama visited African nations and probably most American will see Africa as the land of slavery. But, can you answer one of following questions? When and how did it become a colony of British and France? Was it a colony of European countries when slaves left from Africa? Did the slavery trade happen in the entire continent of Africa? I bet you do not have correct answer to above questions unless you are an African.

Surprisingly, even there was an African empire which the British Empire can not conquer for several decades. The African was not the weaker or the uncivilized, before colonization. I believe that they could rise again since they were so strong to compete with such super powers in the 19th century.