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Kalulu, the 12-year-old salve boy “Kalulu Falls” (Congo River Falls) named after himNdugu M’Hali or Kalulu born in 1865 and died on 28 March 1877. He was an African boy enslaved and adopted by the explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley. Kalulu died young, but he visited Europe, America and the Seychelles throughout his short life. M’Hali was born in …

Role models are significant. In many contexts, “trial and error” can be a good way, but learning from other people’s experience is also essential. She had no blind acceptance of rules or authorities but had the courage to follow her own path. She had the courage to engage others in order to succeed, had the courage to love, and she …

From 21 September 1861 until his assassination on 13 August 1882 by his rival and half-brother, Mampuru II, Sekhukhune I (Matsebe; circa 1814-13 August 1882) was the paramount King of the Marota, more commonly known as the Bapedi. The independent South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) the independent South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) was faced with political challenges by …

Some take this as a myth, others consider it to be fact, and now the debate can end after scientists have reportedly proved that it is indeed true that Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail was the biological father of over 1000 children. As per a Live Science report, scientists and anthropologists at the University of Vienna have generated computer simulations to …

“He will be remembered as an amazing scientist, engineer, professor, and mentor.” Those were the words of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSP) when it announced the death of its member Dr. George R. Carruthers, who passed away December 26 at a Washington hospital. A staunch supporter of the organization, “Carruthers is considered the inventor of the ultraviolet camera/spectrograph. …

Her life inspired many historians and storytellers. English playwright William Shakespeare wrote the famous play “Antony and Cleopatra” based on her life. Cleopatra was born to a royal family around 69 B.C. After her father King Ptolemy XII died, she and her brother ascended to the throne. She was 18 years old during this time. Their relationship became strained after …

Makobo Modjadji, known as Makobo Modjadji VI, The Rain Queen, was born in 1978 and died in 2005. In the line of rain queens for the Balobedu tribe, she was the sixth. Modjadji, or Queen of the Rain is the ancestral queen of the Balobedu people of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The succession to the Rain Queen role …

Evidently, the story of one of the Yoruba kingdom’s first princesses, Moremi Ajasoro, is fascinating and points to the significant role women have played and continue to play in the unity of African kingdoms and nation-states. In the first kingdom of the Yoruba people, Ile-Ife, Moremi Ajasoro, popularly named Moremi, is regarded by all accounts to have been a highly …

The Dahomey Kingdom — present-day Benin — During the 18th and 19th centuries, it was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Africa. The nation had one of Africa’s biggest armies at the time, including the powerful Dahomey Amazons. It also had extensive foreign trade with different European nations. A robust economy, as well as a highly functioning political structure. …

Betul Taytu c. 1851 to 11 February 1918), reigning from 1889 to 1913, was the Empress of the Ethiopian Empire. She was the third wife of Ethiopia’s Emperor Menelik II and founded Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Because of her contributions, Ethiopia remained uncolonized country in the world. Italy had already colonized neighboring Eritrea and most of Somalia, …