Pieces of Evidence That Prove Black People Sailed to the Americas Long Before Columbus Columbus Himself Leo Weiner, a well-known American Historian, and linguist at Harvard University, said that one of the most persuasive pieces of evidence is to support the fact that blacks sailed in the United States before joining Columbus. In Weiner’s book…
Thomas Sankara, the ‘African Che Guevara’ Who Tried to Save Burkina Faso from French Imperialism After a successful coup against a corrupt government in Burkina Faso in 1983, Thomas Sankara was nicknamed “Che Guevara in Africa.” Sankara, formerly known as “Upper Volta,” changed its name to the land of Burkina Faso, meaning “land for…
Lena Horne, The Elegant and Beautiful Talent Who Wasn’t Afraid to Be Blacklisted In Fight Against Discrimination Horne became a member of the civil rights movement and spoke at a rally on behalf of the National Association of People of Color and the National Council of Black Women and attended a March 1963 meeting in…
Trance Dance of the San Community Among the earliest settlers in Southern Africa is the San Community. Widely known as the ‘Bushmen’ by the first European settlers in the land are mainly hunters and farmers who have been living thousands of years before the arrival of the colonists. The people of San is said to…
Things You Didn’t Know About the Enslavement of Black People in Cuba Life Expectancy of Enslaved People in Sugar Mills Was No Greater than Eight Years Working in sugar refineries and sugar cane plantations is a daunting task and often significantly reduces the life expectancy of slaves. According to documents provided by the Latin American…
Witchcraft Diplomas Now Available in Most African Universities A degree programme to safeguard Intangible Zambian heritage has reportedly been developed by the University of Zambia, following the grant of $340,000 from UNESCO . It was gathered that the first intake of 20 “Witches” have been accepted into the University, to study witchcraft. The Zambian Observer…
The excitement of shouting Happy New Year is slowly dying down. Like stepping on the emergency brakes, the holiday season is abruptly coming to a halt. Well, its 2020, and know what? Nothing has changed. Totally. Same old job, same old friends, same old habits, same old house. Perhaps same everything. We have taken…
The word “Unemployment” was an alien terminology in ancient Africa. Everyone was gainfully employed. Everyone contributed to the general economy of the community, town or kingdom. The education system we had then made sure every man or woman born had something that brought food to his or her table. During Africa’s encounter with Europe, new…
In South Africa, Ubuntu is a principle that determines personal responsibility according to the sense of a corporate identity. The spirit of this principle manages communities across Africa and is the foundation for building indigenous approaches to conflict resolution. People from all corners of the African continent are united and firmly believe that human beings…
What was Arkansas’s slavery during the Civil War? The answer to this question is the subject of a new exhibition at the Templar Mosaic Cultural Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. I called “free! African Americans from Arkansas and Civil War: 1861-1866, today, the exhibition opened, and reception held. The exhibition explores the dark perspective of…