History

Piye, a Kushite king who conquered Egypt between 744 and 714 BC, is credited with founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. He ruled from Napata, a city in modern-day Sudan’s Nubia region. Piye was Kashta and Pebatjma’s son. He had three or four wives, according to accounts. His heir, Taharqa’s mother was Abar. Notable wives include Tabiry, Peksater, and perhaps Khensa. Piye, …

Shewa (Amharic: ሸዋ; Arabic: شيوا, Oromo: Shawaa), formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa , is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire. Ethiopians like to hold up their ancient civilization and superiority against colonizers and to that, it remained uncolonized. The ancient province of Endagabatan is now a part of Shewa. …

“King Ndjoya’s favourite wife, with tattoos on her skin, head and shoulders, seen from the front.  King Njoya had 500 wives. King Ibrahim Njoya was the ruler of Bamum, the great ethnic group in what is now western Cameroon, in 17th Century from the years of 1860 to 1933. The history of the Bamum people was preserved before his reign …

Reverend William Washington Browne, a former Georgia slave, established America’s first black-owned bank. The “True Reformers Savings Bank” was the first black bank to be chartered in the United States. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, a Black fraternal organization founded by Browne in 1849, inspired the bank’s name. The bank was established in 1888 but did not …

About 15 years before the era of social media, in the 1990s, there was a veil of mystery surrounding some of the biggest musical artists of that time. Two late pop icons, late rap legend Tupac Shakur and the sadly missed King Of Pop himself Michael Jackson, have been the subject of intense rumors. One in particular claims that 2Pac …

Yaa Asantewaa was a Ghanaian warrior queen, born around 1840, who rose up to lead an army against the invading British. She was a successful farmer and mother. She was an intellectual, a politician, human right activist, queen and a leader. Yaa Asantewaa became famous for leading the Ashanti rebellion against British colonialism to defend the Golden Stool. As the …

Benin Republic has immortalized  Queen Tassi Hangbe, Anti European invasion Iron-Lady who formed the Dahomey Amazons, an all-female military unit that existed in the Dahomey Kingdom. The military unit operated from the 1700s till 1904. A 98 feet tall statue of her was unvield. Africa was home to a part of the world’s best heads in the ancient era. African …

This African solidarity no longer exists. Is there any African country that does this or assists fleeing Ethiopian youth? The profession of Madeba in the passport is most interesting thing. “In 1962, Mr. Nelson Mandela traveled to Ethiopia in secret for military, political, and spiritual training.” On Haile Selassie’s orders, the Ethiopian army first trained and armed Nelson Mandela in …

Muammar Gaddafi played a leading role in ensuring that Africa was connected. Africa declined to paying Europe $500 million a year in satellite usage fees. It was Muammar Gaddafi who led the efforts to connect the whole of the African continent together. Making a phone call in Africa used to be unbelievably expensive. Making a call to a caller who is …

Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is married to Jake, 86, and lives in Solihull in the West Midlands. They have no children. Mary is a former deputy head teacher, and Jake worked …