February, 2021

• 14 February

  North Sentinelese: Tribe that avoided contact with others for over 60,000 years

  

  Sentinel Island, an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island, is one of the Andaman Islands. It is home to the Sentinelites, who have defended their safe isolation from the outside world, mostly by force. The Sentinelese are commonly known as a tribe of the Stone Age, and historians believed they had been living in …

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• 14 February

  Queen of Sheba: African queen who visited King Solomon to verify his wisdom

  

  Many religious texts, including the Bible, Quran, Targum Sheni, and Ethiopian work, Kebra Negas, reference Makeda, the Queen of Sheba in present-day Ethiopia. She is referenced to have been a wise, wealthy and very influential ruler who had to meet King Solomon to verify reports of his intelligence and after a series of examinations, she showered him with valuable gifts. …

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• 14 February

  Love story: Pharaoh Ramesses II the great & Queen Nefertari 3000 years ago

  

  Pharaoh Ramesses II the great was a king of the 19th dynasty (1292-1190 BCE) of ancient Egypt 3000 years ago. In Egyptian history, his reign was the second longest, between 1279-13 BCE. As the greatest, most celebrated, and most dominant pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire, he is also honoured. It is said that he was called the “Great Ancestor” by …

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• 11 February

  How King Leopold II of Belgium killed 10 million Africans in The Congo

  

  Please note: before your read these facts we would like to bring to your attention that in anyway we are not preaching racism, hatespeech, or sharing fake news but a true story Africans were blindfold with organized charity that caused them millions of lives. Different European nations set out to mount their flags all over Africa after the Berlin conference …

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• 10 February

  Mnyazi wa Menza: Kenyan female icon who beat British colonial masters [1912-1915]

  

  Mnyazi wa Menza, also known as ‘Mekatilili Wa Menza or Makatilili born in 1860 was a Kenyan independence activist who led the Giriama people against the colonial administration of Kenya between 1912 and 1915. Mekatilili was born in 1860 in Bamba, Kilifi County, in the Mutsara wa Tsatsu region. In a family of five children, she was the only daughter. …

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• 9 February

  King Oyo, the world’s youngest king who ascended the throne at age 3

  

  Many kids will play games or have fun outside with their friends at age 3, but not for King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who was already learning how to rule a kingdom of more than 2 million people at a very young age. Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, King Oyo, is the reigning Omukama of Toro, in Uganda. …

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• 7 February

  Kingdom of Eswatini/Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy

  

  Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, sometimes alternatively written as eSwatini, and formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, and south. On 19 April 2018, King Mswati III announced that the Kingdom of Swaziland had renamed itself the Kingdom of Eswatini, reflecting the …

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• 6 February

  ‘Iron Lady’ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Africa’s first elected female president

  

  Internationally known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of freedom, peace, justice, women’s empowerment and democratic rule. As Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state, she has led Liberia through reconciliation and recovery following the nation’s decade-long civil war, as well as the Ebola Crisis, winning international acclaim for achieving economic, social, and …

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• 5 February

  “Hell fire? We eat hell fire” Cetshwayo, King of the Zulu told Christian Missionaries

  

  King Cetshwayo kaMpande of the Zulus, was a hero in a wars with the British, causing the most crushing defeat the English ever experienced from any Africans in modern history. His victory at Isandlhwana was one of the most terrifying slaughters in history. In 1879, the British invaded Zululand. Cetshwayo defeated the British, and killed Prince Napoleon, heir to the …

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• 4 February

  Dr. Mae Jemison the first Black Woman to travel into Space

  

  Mae C. Jemison is an American astronaut and physician who was the first African American woman to be enrolled in the NASA training program on June 4, 1987. Eventually on 12 September 1992, Jemison and six others flew into space on STS47, onboard Endeavour making her the first African American woman in space. Jemison received many distinctions and honorary doctorates …

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