African History

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History Of Gaspar Yanga, The Enslaved African From Gabon Who Revolted And Created His Own State In Mexico

On May 15, 1545, Gaspar Yanga, sometimes known as Yanga or Nyanga, was born...

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How Dutch Slave Ship Captain Murdered 664 Captured Africans Below Deck In A Voyage From Ghana To Holland In 1738

The Leusden, a Dutch West India Company slave ship, set off from Elmina, Ghana,...

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How White Politicians In South Africa Created ‘Free’ Black States To Avoid Ending Apartheid And Racism

Apartheid existed prior to the 1948 election of South Africa’s white supremacist National Party,...

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Queen Tiye: The Influential Wife Of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Whose Demise Brought The 18th Dynasty Of Ancient Egypt To An End

Queen Tiye is regarded as the most powerful woman in the history of ancient...

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Meet Omowunmi Sadik, Nigerian Woman Who Is The Inventor Of Biosensors That Detect Bombs

Meet Omowunmi Sadik, the creator of microelectrode biosensors that can detect foreign substances and...

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History of Iyoba Idia, The Queen Mother Of Ancient Benin Kingdom Whose Face Inspired Famous Masks

Even if some of the peoples of the contemporary sovereign state are ancestors of...

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Meet African War Hero Who Sank A German Ship With Bomb Made From Milk-Can But Was Refused Highest Decoration

During World War II, Job Maseko, a South African war hero, sunk an enemy...

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How The Enslaved Igbo People From Africa Influenced Libation Pouring And Patois Language In Jamaica

The Akan people of Ghana are significantly responsible for the continental African presence in...

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History Of Ashanti Prince Who Designed And Built A Signal Station In Trinidad For The British In 1883 (Nana Kofi Ntim)

In the Caribbean, he is known as William Kofi Nti, the son of a...

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Five African Princes Who Were Forcibly Taken Or Stolen From Their Families By Colonizers

During the heyday of the Transatlantic slave trade, millions of Africans were forcibly removed...