Tag: African History
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How Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut And Her People Transformed Egyptian Agriculture By Sailing Dangerous Seas For Plant Exploration
Advertisements Empires and nations have been venturing out into the unknown in pursuit of new agricultural species and animals since the dawn of civilization. According to the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), the hunt for novel plant species was superseded by the cultivation of food and the breeding of animals once agriculture became widespread. […]
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Meet The Black Patrolman Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life In 1958
Advertisements The time was around 2:00 on a Saturday in September of 1958. Al Howard, a police officer in Harlem, and Philip Romano, a new recruit, were sharing a patrol car. In his position as an officer, Howard, age 31, had already logged three years of service. That was the first time he’d ever met […]
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The Hardly Known History Of African Slavery In China
Advertisements Between 1515 and the mid-nineteenth century, more than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves. On their trip to the Americas, two million enslaved men, women, and children died. Aside from the transatlantic slave trade, the Chinese empire’s ships traversed the Indian and Pacific oceans. According to historians, […]
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How The Italian Government Massacred Over 30,000 Ethiopians In 3 Days During The Occupation In 1937 – Yekatit 12
Advertisements One of Africa’s most heinous atrocities occurred eighty-five years ago. During the Italian occupation, Yekatit 12 was a three-day bloodbath in which Fascist Italy killed over 30,000 Ethiopians, including many intellectuals. Mussolini gave the order to ruthlessly punish the Ethiopian populace of Addis Ababa after two Eritrean-born men launched hand grenades at the viceroy […]
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From Slave To Bank Owner: How William Washington Browne Founded The 1st Black-Owned Bank In The U.S. In 1888
Advertisements The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first Black-owned bank in the United States. Reverend William Washington Browne created the bank on March 2, 1888, and it opened its doors on April 3, 1889. The Capitol Savings Bank of Washington, D.C. was the first […]
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The Tula Slave Revolt Of 4,000 Africans In 1795 That Led To Better Treatment Of Enslaved People In Curaçao
Advertisements Curaçao, a small island off the coast of Venezuela, was inhabited by Arawak natives until it was invaded by Spanish sailors in 1499. Following their discovery and invasion of Curaçao, a few Spanish explorers established temporary residences on the island before continuing their expedition, transporting the majority of the Arawak people to other colonies […]
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The Brutal Execution Of Prince Klaas The Enslaved Ghanaian Who Planned To Make Antigua An African State
Advertisements A little over 4 million of the over 12 million slaves captured from Africa to work on the vast plantations of the Americas spent their lives in the Caribbean, with nearly a million on the island of Antigua breaking their backs on the numerous sugar cane plantations that made sugar merchants the richest traders […]
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It’s Exactly 11 Years Gaddafi Was Killed – Here’s A First-Hand Account Of His Last Days And Murder
Advertisements Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader, came to power in a coup in 1969 and was deposed in 2011. While some believe that his leadership brought the country many socioeconomic advances, others accuse him of being a tyrant who controlled with an iron fist. On October 20, 2011, he was deposed after a multinational military invasion […]
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Black Surgeon Who Performed World’s 1st Successful Open Heart Surgery In 1893 – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Advertisements Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American cardiologist, became the first surgeon in the United States to execute a successful open-heart treatment in 1893, exactly 125 years ago today. Because he was one of the few black cardiologists in the United States at the time, William’s surgery became a notable milestone in medical history and […]
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A Historian Insisted That Kwame Nkrumah Was Not A Ghanaian
Advertisements The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day commemorates the life and times of the great Osagyefo, the inspiring leader and one-of-a-kind man of courage who led Ghana to independence. Nkrumah was born at Nkroful in the Western Region of what was then known as the Gold Coast to Kofi Ngonloma of the Asona Clan and Elizabeth […]
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How The Ottoman Empire Castrated Black Men, Called Eunuchs, To Keep Guard Of Royal Women
Advertisements Eunuchs were castrated African men kidnapped from Darfur, Abyssinia, Korodofan, Zanzibar, and other African countries and sent to the courts of sultans in Turkey, Arabia, and other Middle Eastern countries. Young boys, who were frequently victims of raids and wars, were subjected to the gruesome and inhumane process of castration without anesthesia, which resulted […]
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Pioneer Slave Trader Who Deceived Africans With Jesus’ Salvation And Lured Them On His ‘Jesus’ Ship – William Hawkins
Advertisements According to history, Juan de Córdoba of Seville was the first merchant to send an African slave to the New World in 1502. The Spanish authorities only allowed merchants to sell one to three enslaved Africans because the slave trade was still in its early stages. By 1504, a small group of Africans, most […]
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How African-Americans OF Harlem Fought To Save Ethiopia From Italian Dictator Mussolini
Advertisements The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, started in 1935 and lasted seven months, culminating in the military occupation of Ethiopia. Italy attempted an invasion of Ethiopia for the second time. Ethiopia was a sovereign nation with a robust army and a strong monarchy at the time, while the rest […]
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Africans Created Stars & Moon System Around 7,000 Years Ago With World’s Oldest Astronomical Site
Advertisements World’s Oldest Astronomical Site Found In Africa: It is believed that this 7,000-year-old stone circle was built to mark the summer solstice and the beginning of the annual monsoon season. As well as that, it is the world’s oldest known astronomy site. Ancient civilizations all across the world have been constructing massive stone circles […]
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The Ancient Kingdom Of Uganda Practiced & Perfected Caesarian Section Long Before Europeans
Advertisements Ancient Kingdom Of Uganda Practiced & Perfected Caesarian Section: It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that infection-free surgery became a reality in the medical establishments of England and many other parts of the western world. According to traditional British thinking, Caesarean section was considered a life-threatening procedure that should only be undertaken in […]
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How Countries In Europe Came To Have Flags With Heads Of Black Men On Them
Advertisements Although the identity-building endeavor known as Europeanization only began two or three centuries ago (and was concretized and accelerated following World War I), European polities have always cherished sovereignty and tradition. Even after being united under distinct nations for so many years, the idiosyncrasies of areas like Basque, Sicily, and Lombardy continue to shine […]
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History Of The Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)
Advertisements The Second Italo-Abyssinian War (or the second Italo-Ethiopian war) was a colonial war fought between October 1935 and February 1937, in what was Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, a process which began after the 1885 Partition of Africa. Having been defeated in their first attempt at conquest at the battle of Adwa in 1896, allowing […]
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The Nok Civilization Is One of the Oldest Civilizations of West Africa
Advertisements Considered one of the oldest civilizations in the African continent, the Nok Culture spanned the demise of the Neolithic (Stone Age) and the rise of the Iron Age in sub-Saharan Africa. According to current research, it predates the founding of Rome by at least 500 years and was such a complex society complete with […]
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History Of Ancient Egypt: The Whip Of The Law
Advertisements Ancient Kemet (Egypt) till today remains a highly mysterious civilization for Europeans and Arabs invaders and usurpers – who disguise as Egyptologists, tearing down every inch of ancient Kemet, in search of treasures and the magnificence of African ancestors. Although many will deny this, we who study history know that everything ancient Egypt was, […]
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Alexander The Great Gained Power After Meeting With Ancient Egyptian Oracle Head
Advertisements It has been revealed that Alexander the great got inspired after an encounter with an Egyptian oracle. It was after this meeting, that alexander felt empowered to take on the world. According to Dr. Sujan Kumar Dass in Black People Invented Everything – The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity: “Ancient Egypt, at a time […]
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The Sad History Of Sarah Baartman – African Woman Sexualized And Put On Display For Her Shape
Advertisements The documentation of Africa’s encounter with the European man, can not be complete without the mention of Sarah Baartman. Her case adds to the many crimes committed against Africans by Caucasians, in their bid to dominate and colonize the ancient people of Africa. The inhumane translocation and sexuaization of this black woman, till today, […]
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Story Of Female Liberation Fighter Who Was Killed By White-Apartheid Police (Phila Portia Ndwandwe)
Advertisements Phila Portia Ndwandwe was a female MK commander who was murdered by South African police members. Phila who was also known as Zandile or Zandi was born on 2nd June 1965, at a place called Mlazi, Durban. She served in the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi […]
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Akon Asks African Americans To Let Go Of Slavery And Move On – What Say You?
Advertisements The topic of slavery is one which is very close to the hearts of not just Africans, but also to a great extent, African Americans. At every point, Black people in America evoke and recounts the stories of slavery; not because it is fun, but because it is their story and because those who […]
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King Njoya: African King Who Invented A Writing Script For His People
Advertisements Between the mid-19th century to early 20th century, the kingdom of Bamum was ruled by a very charismatic king who brought series of innovations to his kingdom, including inventing a writing script with which he preserved his people’s history and culture. Bamum which lies in the Grassfields region of western Cameroon, was an ancient […]
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Meet Lewis Latimer Who Invented The Carbon Light Bulb Filament In 1881
Advertisements To a great deal, the contributions of black people to world development are overlooked, or less told, unlike their those of their white counterparts. This said many African inventors in human history are today not given credit for their achievements. In view of this, many are kept away from the knowledge of the fact […]
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The Horrific History Of Human Zoos: How Europeans Exhibited Africans In Zoos With Animals
Advertisements All men were made to be equal and enjoy equal rights to freedom. Yet, over the past millennia, men have thought themselves, their race and ethnicity, above others. They have enslaved one another to varying degrees. While we may forget, or excuse, some of the man’s atrocities against another, there is one event in […]
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History Of Shaka Zulu: From Unwanted Son To Great Zulu King
Advertisements The Zulu Kingdom (sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zulu land), was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north. A region populated by many independent Nguni chiefdoms, it had […]
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The Anglo-Aro War Of 1901-1902: How British Terrorized And Destroyed An Igbo Ancient Kingdom
Advertisements The history of Africa, for the last 500 years and more, is filled with accounts of European invasions and terrorism. Europeans, in their quest to plunder, steal, and expand their empires, entered Africa with superior weapons with a vile intention to subdue and decimate, and without delay, destroyed so many ancient kingdoms and civilizations […]
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Omukama Kabalega Of Bunyoro: Great African King Who Resisted British Terrorism In The 19th Century
Advertisements Once, in western Uganda, lay the Kingdom of Bunyoro which at its time was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Central and East Africa from the 13th to the 19th century. An extensive and prestigious kingdom―its people are known as the Banyoro or Nyoro (and Munyoro for singular)―Bunyoro was blessed with strong rulers whose […]
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Meet The Most Prominent Black Scientist Of The Early 20th Century – George Washington Carver
Advertisements George Washington Carver is best known as an American botanist and inventor. During his life, he aggressively pushed for the planting of alternative crops to cotton and methods of planting to prevent soil depletion. He was rated as the foremost African American scientist of the early 20th century. Moses Carver was his master, a […]
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African King Who Almost Bankrupted Britain With A Lawsuit For Killing 2.4 Million Of Bunyoro People
Advertisements More than a decade ago, a half-forgotten colonial expedition to subjugate what British colonialists considered a quarrelsome African kingdom more than a century ago could have left Britain bankrupt if a Ugandan king succeeded in bringing a £3.7 trillion suit against the Crown. According to a report by Telegraph, in 2004, Rukirabasaija Solomon Gafabusa […]
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The World’s First Humans – Mountain-Dwelling People Of The African Great Lakes
Advertisements They are known as the Batwa or the Great Lakes Twa, a pygmy people who are believed to be not only the oldest surviving population of the Great Lakes region of central Africa but the first people to inhabit Africa and the world in general, alongside the Kalahari San people. Although they currently live […]
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The Last Survivor Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Who Filled For Reparations In 1930
Advertisements The transatlantic slave trade might be viewed as something from a barbaric and distant era, however, a historian has found evidence its last survivor was alive in living memory. At Newcastle University, Hannah Durkin had previously identified the last surviving slave captured in Africa in the 19th Century and brought to United States. She […]
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The Lynching Of Two Black Men And Their Pregnant Wives In Georgia, In 1946
Advertisements This story is one of the most depressing and hurtful accounts of lynchings in American history that we have had to report in our existence as a platform. This is a bitter account of how four African American sharecroppers were lynched at Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia on July 25, 1946. The event is […]
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Queen Amina Of Zaria: The History Of An Uncommon African Warrioress
Advertisements Queen Amina was a warrior queen of the popular city-state Zazzau (Zaria) in the present-day Kaduna. Amina was the celebrated queen of Bakwa Turunku and the 22nd ruler of Zazzau. She was a known voice in the mid-sixteen century. Many folk tales and legends have suppressed her real biography. She had a younger, beautiful sister […]
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The Massacre Of Over 69 South-Africans By White Cops In 1960 (Sharpeville Massacre)
Advertisements On March 21, 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa. It was the incident that up to that point resulted in the deaths of the largest number of South Africans in a protest against apartheid. It also came to symbolize the struggle against apartheid. Sharpeville is a black suburb outside […]
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The Maji Maji Rebellion Of Tanzanians Against German Brutality (1905-1907)
Advertisements The most significant African challenge to German colonial rule during the brief period when Germany had African colonies was the Maji Maji Uprising in Tanganyika. The Uprising involved people over 10,000 square miles and lasted two years. During the “scramble for Africa” that took place in Berlin in 1885, European powers dominated much of […]