African History
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They won’t teach you in school that Africans had their own writing systems before the advent of Europeans and Arabs on African Soil. Here are the list of African ancient writing...
Thread on Chordophone Instruments in West African History https://t.co/zYeNE4Umrz
COMING TO AMERICA—Abu Bakar—1310 AD _ African king Abubakari Mansa Keita Ruler of the Great Ancient Mali Empire in the 13th century, handed over his throne to his brother Mansa Mu...
Before colonisation, Africans were healthier, and their diet was varied and nutritious. They suffered new health issues only after being brought into the colonial capitalist econom...
1/37: "A New Paradigm: The African Early Iron Age (EIA) without Bantu Migrations" by John H. Robertson and Rebecca Bradley The Early Iron Age (EIA) THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/rH5zMWmURf
THE MOORS ____ Black People & Their Place In World History By: Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA. A Dynamic, Honest and Powerful View of Black History. During the European Dark Ages, bet...
In 2015, a young Black man from North London, who decided to educate himself, instead of going to university showed the Oxford Union that everything they thought they knew about A...
A Story about the The Sokoto Caliphate A thread Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/Es8EXbhSEZ
Somalis in the Cairo Geniza? (Medieval Jewish Records) The Cairo Geniza consist of thousands of manuscripts stored at Ben Ezra synagogue. This thread will cover some that make ref...
King Piye, The First Black Pharaoh Who Ruled Egypt From 744 – 714 BC. King Piye was an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who conquered and rul...
France has the 4th largest gold reserve in the world. How? France holds 90% of the gold reserves of 15 African countries and pays 0% interest on what it makes from those reserves...
@Tanit1888 People like this don't deserve any kind of attention. They are blind and flat out stupid, even in their ignorance.
History Of The Kanem-Bornu Empire That Existed From The 9th To The 19th. The Kanem-Bornu Empire was an African trading empire that was ruled by the Sef (Sayf) dynasty that control...
The Songhai Empire II The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state that dominated the western Sahel/Sudan in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak, it was one...
In school they told you Mrs Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was the First Woman to drive a Car in Africa that’s true but She was more than that !! A must read thread Retweet to educate...
Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe, Americas, and Asia....
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...
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...
History of the kingdom of Benin A thread 🧵 Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/aAeNpjEtDA
Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race. A THREAD! https://t...
Mansa Musa was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. During his reign, Mali was one of the richest kingdoms of Africa & a centre of Islamic scholarship, spre...
The World Richest Black Man Who Ever Lived. Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali)🇲🇱 was the king of the ancient empire of Mali in West Africa. He was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from...
Some Clarities: 1. AFRICA is not Monolithic, it's not a country and it's the most diverse continent. Therefore, HISTORY of "Africa" itself isn't one as such, rather We can have Yor...
BaSotho-BaTswana-BaPedi-BaRotse-Bapolana Thread 🧵 The estimated Basotho population is over 25 million across Southern Africa. Bosotho population includes… https://t.co/D6Wbw1EgQ...
