African Studies
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60 compliments made by ancient Greeks about Africans or Africa (who they called Ethiopians not today Ethiopia which was known as Abyssinia. 1. "The Ethiopians are the most hands...
September 1968 A footage of heavy exchange of gunfire as Biafran Army clashes with Nigerian Soldiers at Ikot-Ekpene. https://t.co/sVMmbUvFOa
Copied From Uche Osefoh The Heartbreak of January 6, 1971: Nigeria's Decree on Igbo Bank Accounts On January 6, 1971, just a year after the end of the devastating Nigerian Civil...
On this day in 1983, Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara became president of Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, in a popularly supported coup. Read on to learn how he tr...
The West doesn’t like African immigrants. But the West is also opposed to China developing infrastructure in Africa that will improve living standards & make Africans want to stay...
If Yesterday’s was about important ports, today it’s about African Nations. Btw, UPSC loves asking questions on Africa Bookmark this for upcoming prelims 2024 Reading Time: 3 mi...
Divine Kings at war: Thread on the Kings of Bornu, Benin & Kwararafa at war in the 16th & 17th centuries. https://t.co/JvBdxHhdu8
Shona chiefs relations with the Ndebele ( Matabele) State of Kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula. A warts and all short thread: Some background: Between 1838 and 1840, the Ndebele nation...
Westerners yap about “black history” but they neglect the real black history, the history of africans being warriors fighting off the European colonial powers. 🧵/ Who is Samori Tu...
Muammar Gaddafi 🇱🇾 loved Barrack Obama like a son. (Copied) When Obama became the president of the United States 🇺🇸, Gaddafi was one of the first African leaders who congratulat...
The Story of Emperor (Mansa) Musa Keita I, the richest man who ever lived. ___ Owner of an incalculable fortune, the African king commanded the empire of Mali in the beginning of...
Before South Africa had nine provinces, it had 10 Bantustans. The Bantustans were a continuation of the colonial African “reserve” system instituted in 1913. They were meant to con...
Amilcar Cabral during Kwame Nkruma’s funeral. "For, as President Ahmed Sékou Toure often says: ‘What is man before the infinite and transcendent becoming of peoples and mankind?...
This was one of the best topics in African Literature 400. Our lecturer, Dr. Mutie, explained it so well. There were three arguments. Chinua Achebe was of the opinion to take the c...
These are pictures of the black populations of ancient Greece & Rome. You will find websites and ignorant historians tell you that these are depictions of "Africans" living in Euro...
20th century's first genocide, was a concerted extermination of over 100,000 Heroro people by the Germans in today's Namibia. An additional 50,000 Herero were shipped off to Europ...
AFRICAN ORIGIN OF SPIRITUALITY There were three types of people in the world from inception: the people of the Sun (Africoid type, the first to have emerged); the people of the sa...
British Colonial Rule and the Evolution of Food Systems British colonization in Africa took three forms: Settler-ism, Indirect rule and concessions. Here's how food systems evolv...
The BaPedi Kingdom was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Southern Africa. Under King Sekhukhune II, they defeated the Boers twice in battle and were known as the British Nightma...
The Kongo Kingdom and the hidden Holocaust. _____ From 1885 -1908 Leopold II used his army to coerce natives of Congo into forced labor, Armed with modern weapons army of mercenari...
The desire to escape slavery, was once classified as a mental illness called Drapetomania in 1851. Black people were considered mentally ill for refusing to live in bondage. Never...
On This Day in 1967. The former Governor of Eastern Region, Dr. Akanu Ibiam from Ebonyi state, returned his knighthood (KBE) to Queen Elizabeth II, in protest against UK's involve...
“A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity. The African Union (AU) must stop condemning Africans who decide to fight against their own puppet regimes of the West" - Ibrahim...
A thread on my all-time favorite books on Black/African history Precolonial Black Africa - Cheikh Anta Diop A History Of Upper Guinea Coast - Walter Rodney The Destruction of...
