History

Tenkamenin ‘King of Golden Kingdom of Ghana’ One of Great Models of African Rule (1037-1075 A.D.) Tenkamenin, the King of the People. Tenkamenin ruled from 1062 until 1076 in what is modern-day Ghana-who would have known right? Throughout Tenkamenin’s brief reign Ghana reached great heights. Tenkamenin’s empire prospered economically through his tactful management of the gold trade across the Sahara …

Let us remember that African communities did not sit back and watch in glee but they fought back. The Liverpool Museum website features a firsthand account of the story of an African boy, Ouladah Equiano violently forced into a lifetime of slavery. It reads partially, “Generally, when the grown people within the neighborhood were gone far within the fields to …

From the Book ‘Sudan’s Blood Memory’ The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan by Stephanie Beswick. Stephanie Beswick is a professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan. The Dinka Nubian Connection Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and …

Born Nzinga Mbemba, King Alfonso I was the ruler of the Kongolese people in the early sixteenth century. He reigned over the Kongo Empire from 1509 to late 1542 or 1543. Mbemba created a good commercial connection with the Portuguese, and embraced Catholicism as a result of this relationship. Every aspect of the life of the King, from his name, got changed …

With relation to the world history, the connection to one of the richest kings that has ever lived is a product of Mali’s wealth. King Mansa Musa from Mali is the richest man who ever lived. Mali has one of the world’s oldest known universities. Its literary impact was so wide which included many academic studies documenting African and Southern …

The First Battle of Dongola was a battle between early Arab-Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate and the Nubian- forces of the Kingdom of Makuria in 642. The battle, which resulted in a Makurian victory, temporarily halted Arab incursions into Nubia and set the tone for an atmosphere of hostility between the two cultures until the culmination of the Second Battle of Dongola in 652. The Second Battle of Dongola or Siege of Dongola was a military engagement …

It is important to human civilization that we be able to count and measure the world around us. The earliest recorded development of measurement and calculation in Africa confirms the continent as the origin of both simple and advanced mathematics. The first proof of this particular discovery was the Lebombo Bone in Africa during the Upper Palaeolithic Period. The baboon …

As mining continues to be an important sector in the world today, it originated in Stone Age Africa from Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland. At the Ngwenya Mine, which still operates in Swaziland of Southern Africa, people mined red haematite and specularite at least 41,000 to 43,000 years ago. The mine was beautifully worked for the production of the ochre that …

The Mandinka belong to West African people that spread to different parts of The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast. Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande. They’re also known as Malinke, Mandingo among other different names. The Mandinkas are the most prominent tribe of the Mande people with a world population of about 11 million, all …

Al Quaraouiyine University, Fez in Morocco West African, is the world’s oldest continuous operating university. It is no wonder, with its tradition of invention and education, that Africa holds oldest university in Morocco, which is run continuously. The University of Al Quaraouiyine, Fez, was founded way back in 859 AD by a Tunisian woman, Fatima al-Fihri. Al-Fihri spent her generous …