Amanirenas was the second Queen of the Kush Kingdom, which existed in what is now Sudan. Between 40BC and 10BC, she ruled over the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush in Nubia. She was popularly known as Queen Mother or Kandake, the Nubian people’s title for a ruling queen. She is one of the most well-known Meroitic Kush Queens. The Kingdom of …

The Kingdom of the Banyakitara is also known as the Empire of Kitara or Chwezi Empire (Empire of the Sun, Empire of the Moon, Empire of the Light). It ruled most of the Nile valley and beyond during its peak growth. When the Kingdom of Aksum disintegrated about 940 AD into the kingdoms of Makuria, Zagwe, Damot, and Shewa, another …

As some African countries like South Sudan gained their independence just in 2011, people from African liberated a ‘first black nation’ (Haiti) in North America more than 216 years ago, the only state in history established by a successful slave revolt. Haiti became the world’s first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th …

Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II (born 13 April 1955) is the current Kabaka (king) of Buganda, a constitutional kingdom in modern-day Uganda. He is the Buganda’s 36th Kabaka. He was born at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. He is the son of Kabaka of Buganda Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Muteesa II, who reigned from 1939 to …

Ladi Kwali, OON, MBE (c.1925– August 12, 1984) was a Nigerian potter. Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari area of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous female custom. Her aunt taught her how to coil pottery as a child. She fashioned large pots from clay coils, pounded from the inside with a flat wooden paddle, for use as …

Badu Bonsu II was a Ghanaian king and chief of the Ahanta who was innocently executed in 1838 by the Dutch, who controlled the Dutch Gold Coast at the time. Rebellion against the Dutch We all know King Badu was ruling his people in his land without outsiders interrupting the peaceful living the Ghanaian people at that time. King Badu …

Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a 3,000 year-old lost city complete with mud brick houses, artifacts and tools from the times of the pharaohs. The mortuary city, in the southern province of Luxor, is being called the most important such find since the tomb of Tutankhamun. It dates back to the period under King Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty. There …

This 7,000-year-old stone circle tracked the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. It’s also the oldest known astronomical site on Earth. For thousands of years, ancient civilizations around the world built huge stone circles to mark the seasons and align them with the Sun and stars. These early calendars predicted the arrival of spring, summer, fall, …

The Kingdom of Rwanda was a pre-colonial Bantu kingdom in East Africa that survived under German and Belgian colonial rule with some autonomy intact until its monarchy was abolished in the Rwandan Revolution in 1961. Rwanda became a republic after a referendum in 1961 and gained independence in 1962. A court in exile has been operating abroad since the monarchy …

Idia was the mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin who reigned from 1504 to 1550. She was portrayed as a great warrior who fought tirelessly before and during her son’s reign as the oba (king) of the Edo people. Following the death of Esigie’s father, Oba Ozolua, Queen Idia was instrumental in securing the title of oba for him. …