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Not to be confused with the similar looking, 1st century BC Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania, which is also a Numidian mausoleum located in northern Algeria, and is essentially a more monumental copy of the earlier mausoleum of Madghacen, featured in this article. The monument is named after Madghis, a semi-legendary ancestor of a number of Amazigh tribes, although the early …

The once-forbidden art of slaves defending themselves against their owners is now respected, cherished, and ingrained in Brazilian society. Capoeira is a self-defense and performance martial art that mainly emphasizes kicking and complicated movements from the realms of acrobatics and dance. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that integrates aspects of fighting, music, and dance from Central-West African, Brazilian, and …

Reconstruction of the beautiful face, Queen Tiye. Queen Tiye (also known as Tiy) was a queen of Egypt of the 18th dynasty, wife of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun Queen Tiye is known as the most powerful woman of her period in recorded history of Kemet, ancient Egypt. Tiye, also known …

5 May 1941 His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassi I, the King of the Kings of Ethiopia, the Elected One of God was Ethiopia’s latter emperor, the conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the last emperor of the Solomonic Dynasty to rule Ethiopia until September 12, 1974. A child in the village of Eastern Ethiopia was born on July 23, …

According to a DNA analysis of ancient human bones from KwaZulu-Natal, Southern Africa has a crucial role to play in writing the history of humanity. A study team from Uppsala University in Sweden, the Universities of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in South Africa present their findings in the early online issue of Science on September 28th. The researchers analysed the …

Nnete Okorie-Egbe of Akwete was a Princess and revolutionary leader from Akwete. Nnete was the fearless leader of the 1929 women’s riot of Aba, protesting unfair taxation of women.  She was imprisoned by the British Colonial Administration for two years in Port Harcourt.  Later released to a hero’s welcome as the British Colonial Administration backed down and reversed itself, by …

Many people, including so-called Native Americans, think they were the first people in America. However, there is no proof that this is the case! According to David Imhotep, author of The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence, there are 17 pieces of hard evidence that show that the first to arrive in the Americas were actually Black people… yes, Africans! …

According to recent research, climate change was a major factor in the demise of large creatures across Africa over the last several million years, contradicting the long-held view that our first weapon-wielding ancestors had a role. Archaeologists and paleontologists have yet to figure out when and why megafauna, such as enormous elephants and antlered giraffes, went extinct. The arrival of …

Many portrayals of the events surrounding the RMS Titanic show only white passengers, leading many to believe there were no persons of color on board. In recent years, the story of the Titanic’s single black passenger and his family has been brought to light as an ignored Titanic fact. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born in 1886 in Haiti. At …

Black Indians are Native Americans who have strong African American ancestry. They are regarded as Native Americans since they are linked with Native American tribes and are culturally Native Americans. As we widely know that Black people occupied India longtime ago and were the kings there. In similar way they also occupied America. The history of Native Americans and African …