African Studies
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Bola Tinubu has just been declared Nigeria's President-elect. Here's my pick of academic readings for understanding who he is and what his record as former Governor of Lagos State...
Kingdom of Dongola/Makuria (Nubia) 590 – 1314 AD The Kingdom of Dongola was located within the present day southern Egypt and northern Sudan, the dominion was best referred to as...
» Regina Twala: One woman’s forgotten story reveals a dirty truth about Africa’s written histories | The Guardian https://t.co/AXCU4krM55
🧵 thread 1/11 Here is proof that I.M Lewis was deliberately manipulating somali history I.M Lewis an British colonial historian was deliberately manipulating somali history and w...
Abubakari II Mansa the African king who Arrived America before Columbus. Abubakari II, Mansa (King) of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, led Malian sailors to the America(s), s...
Story of the Oba of Benin Who Was Exiled to Calabar by the British Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi A Thread 🧵 Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/5B32uwvYtx
On this day in 1975, Cuba began Operation Carlota, its most important military internationalist mission in Africa. It was a major undertaking that contributed to the defeat of the...
Three yrs ago, I was teaching some non-Afrikan students critical Afrikan studies at an American elite University centre for talented youths. I explored colonial contacts with four...
The Greatest African Leaders Of All Time; A Thread https://t.co/vw56f8SvN5
THE STORY OF OYOTUNJI: A YORUBA KINGDOM IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A Thread! Retweet Yorubas during slavery maintained their culture | Mayor Ekiti seyi abike Nigerians doyin E...
History: Thomas Fuller, Unbelievable Slave With Impeccable Mathematics Skills Thread! Retweet and Comment An African sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes kno...
Osifekunde was about 20 years old (approximately 1810) when Ijaw pirates captured him in the Niger Delta lagoon and sold him to Brazilian slave merchants. THREAD! https://t.co/Gmr...
One thing I admire about Zik and Nkrumah era African nationalists - is that they understood that oftentimes, you HAD to CONFRONT the West. Contemporary African "technocrats" on t...
Ife bronze head (1400s): 18 of these life-like heads were accidentally found in the Wunmonije Compound in Ife, the spiritual home of the Yoruba. The realism and sophisticated craft...
A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904. The man’s name was Nsal...
1. It was mid-19th century, the Victorian Era was underway. The English embarked on a journey they called, the “Victorian Purpose” for Africa. One of the chief antagonists of that...
Chinua Achebe Know the man behind the book “Things Fall Apart” A thread 🧵 Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/5rKRFMl2LH
Ekiti Parapo war;history of the longest Yorùbá civil war. The Yorùbá Ekiti Parapo War was an epic and chronic civil war between two powerful Yoruba confederate armies. Of mainly...
Ozumba Mbadiwe All you need to know about the man Thread 🧵 https://t.co/ZDO4rEhu3r
“A Brief History of the Igbo Landing of 1803” [The Igbo slaves who drowned themselves with their captors to avoid being sold in USA]. Made in Lagos, Terri, Kashim Shettima, Osinb...
#China forgives #debt for 17 countries in #Africa, says Wang Yi at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Between 2000 & 2019, China also cancelled $3.4bn in debt and restructured...
Jaja of Opobo was killed with a cup of tea in 1891. King Jaja of Opobo (1821-1891), the wealthiest and most powerful monarch in the Niger Delta and sole founder of Opobo, was Igbo...
BLACK AFRICAN AND DIASPORA PHILOSOPHY: THEIR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT Unfortunately, many detractors of the emerging field of Black and Africana Ph...
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