Liberia, a nation on the west coast of Africa, was founded in the early 1800s as a result of various factors, including domestic politics of slavery...
The Sengoku period in Japan, spanning from 1467 to 1615, was a time of great upheaval and transformation marked by political intrigue, warfare, and social change....
The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, known in history and theatre as Julius Caesar’s lover and later as Mark Antony’s wife, was born in 70 or 69 BCE...
Shaka Zulu, often written Chaka or Tshaka, was a Zulu leader and the founder of the Zulu Empire in Southern Africa. He was born around 1787...
Elmina Castle, also known as Castelo da Mina was built by the Portuguese in 1482 as Castelo de So Jorge da Mina (St. George of the...
About two million illegal migrants from Ghana were forcibly removed from Nigeria in 1983. They placed their belongings into the popular checked bags commonly known as...
The brutality that Europeans inflicted upon West Africa was extensive, but no period in history was more dreaded than the time of Paul Voulet and Julien...
Queen Amanirenas was a Kushite queen described as “a manly sort of lady and blind in one eye” by the Greek geographer and historian Strabo of...
The “Galveston Giant,” better known as Jack Arthur Johnson, was the first black heavyweight boxing champion in history. On December 26, 1908. He fought Tommy Burns...
Numerous studies have been done on southern African rock art, which is found in the southern African nations of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Botswana,...