When you go back to review history, you realize that there have been people judged unkindly, sometimes because of skin color or simply being in the...
Ndaté Yalla Mbodj was the last great Queen of Waalo; one of the four Wolof kingdoms of Senegambia located in what is known today as North-West Senegal. During her...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Who is a suffragist? A suffragist is a person advocating that the right to vote...
There is honor in Africans telling their own history ~ Samuel Eto’o Throughout the history of our beloved continent Africa; its people and culture have been...
The Gambia has records that go as far back as the 9th and 10th centuries that say that Arab traders formed the country. Trans-Saharan trade dominated...
Ethiopian men and women fought in the Battle of Adwa more than 126 years ago. It was a climactic war of the First Italo-Ethiopian War....
In 711 A.D, a group of North African Muslims called the Moors led by the Berber general, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, captured the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain...
The ancient Benin Kingdom is legendary and was known in the past as Igodomigodo. One of the features of the Benin kingdom that makes it attractive...
In Togo, the lingua franca is French and they have some of the most fascinating markets ever. People travel from far and wide to buy goods,...
There are many, who do not know that in Rwanda, there was a civil war in which many lives were lost before the genocide that happened...