African history
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A History of Zimbabwe
Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: 11th – 15th c. The plateau between the rivers Zambezi and Limpopo, in southeast Africa, offers…
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Quett Ketumile Joni Masire (1925-2017), the great African leader you may have never heard of
Quett Masire, president of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, passed away aged 91 on 22 June 2017. He was one of Africa’s…
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Throwback: The International Criminal Court and Gaddafi
The request by chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo that arrest warrants for war crimes be issued against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his…
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The Error In Calling Caucasians “white”
The false teachings associated with Christianity is the root cause of Caucasian Racism in the world today. Jesus of Nazareth…
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The Big Lie about the Libyan War and its consequences.
In this fifth anniversary week of the U.S.-led Libya intervention, it’s instructive to revisit Hillary Clinton’s curiously abridged description of…
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Decolonizing philosophy
Many philosophers consider their field to be the mother of all disciplines. The popular picture is that philosophy, like a fertile womb, gives birth to…
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Haile Selassie, Speech to the UN. October 6 1963
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wszwI1E24eM[/embedyt] Haile Selassie addresses the United Nations General Assembly during the Eighteenth Session on October 4th, 1963 calling for…
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Magufulification of Africa by Prof. PLO Lumumba
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPV5ZViSC0o[/embedyt] Magufulification of Africa by Prof. PLO Lumumba at Nkrumah Hall, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Source: Youtube
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The Guyana Government Can Invite The ICC To Prosecute Bharrat Jagdeo
Responding to questions about the Guyana Government’s refusal to prosecute that country’s former president, Bharatt Jagdeo, for crimes against humanity,…
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Omaha race riot of 1919
The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of…
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Encountering the promised land: Rastafari in Ethiopia and Shashamane
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie would have been 125 this year. Perhaps coincidentally — and indeed meaningfully for Rastafari repatriates in…
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The Richest Man Ever To Live -Mansa Musa Of Mali
When we usually discuss Black History we usually talk about well-known individuals like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm…
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‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara, the former leader of Burkina Faso, was the apparent opposite of everything we are often told that success…
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Scouting was founded in West Africa
Baden-Powell brought many ideas home from the Ashanti campaign, in what is now Ghana in West Africa. Many of them…
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The Naga: Ancient African Writing Systems and Knowledge
Naga/Nagash was also the title ‘King’ for the ancient Semitic speaking people of modern Ethiopia who lived in Arwe, and…
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