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Fun fact: The term "Dreadlock" was first used by the British soldiers in 1950s Kenya to describe the Mau Mau warriors because of the sense of dread their appearance instilled in Br...
After Guinea declared independence from France in 1958, the French were so furious , they set out to undo everything they had done in Guinea. They dismantled railway tracks, dug up...
@manunitedfanCMR @BafakanIbel Were you there? We only know what was written or, in your case, making up stuff. There are accounts of Dahomey opposing the slave trade also, just as...
@Patience_always @lamb_jabari @friendsof1847 It was a clash of cultures & not the institutionalized oppressive state people are insinuating. Native people weren't familiar nor inte...
I'll start with documented history. Ptolemy XV was born in 47 BCE to Greco-Egyptian Pharoah Cleopatra and Roman dictator Julius Caesar. After the assassination of Julius, Cleopatra...
@abefe_pappykris @FrancosSon3 That's simply because Black people interact more with each other than they do with non Blacks. So you're more likely to encounter other Black people's...
A few examples of this, are the Great Kingdom of Kongo, The Jollof empire of Senegambia, the Shambaa kingdom of Tanzania...Long established states that all rapidly disintegrated in...
There usually isn't much discussion on how the Transatlantic Slave Trade affected African societies, so I created a short thread of a few of the ways in which the slave trade radic...
Interestingly, famous British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who was later hired by king Leopold to lobby American businessmen tp invest in Congo, was also the guy who mad...
In 1880, former Confederate general, Grand Dragon of the KKK & U.S Senator John Tyler Morgan reached an agreement with King Leopold of Belgium to get the U.S to recognize Leopold'...
Try explaining to someone that the Empire of Ghana was actually in Mauritania & not in Ghana, the Kingdom of Benin was in Nigeria & not in Benin, Kingdom of Kongo was mostly in Ang...
America created a unique system in which slave labor wasn't only a means of production, but enslaved people themselves were also the finished product. Incentivizing slave holders t...