History

Breffu was an Akwamu leader of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (then known as St. Jan) in Danish West Indies. She committed...

It would take an entire book (or several books) to describe all the great and famous people of Africa. Below you will see a...

Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides...

History records it that Nana Yaa Asantewaa was born on 17th October 1840 and died on the same birth month, 17th October 19210. She...

Jan Kooi was the first African corporal to gained some fame in the Netherlands for his brave feats in the Atjeh (now Aceh) war...

A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Portugal’s colonies...

Perhaps you might have heard about Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the remarkable things he did whiles he was still alive mostly...

It is uncommon to hear most people ignorantly claiming blacks or Africans lacked wisdom in science and technology until the Arabs and Europeans came...

Whiles in Jail, he had an encounter with God through a dream instructing him to burn his fetishes. Kwame Sampson Oppong, also known as...

Grace Ogot, a celebrated Kenyan writer of ethnic Luo origin, accomplished midwife, tutor, journalist, and a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster and the first woman...