( This is the real Africa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z17mONzDCCI ) Poverty, wars, coups, corruption, famine and drought. This is how the US media portrays Africa. As a result the average American simply dismisses Africa as hopeless, poor and backward. However, the picture is quite different for those who have visited or lived in the Motherland. The [...]
Many of the peoples of West Africa trace their origins to the Nile River Valley . Egypt , though it may have been the "Gift of the Nile," was but the tip of the vast Nile Valley culture. In 666 BC, however, the Assyrians conquered Egypt. The African rulers and much of the populace [...]
Kwame Nkrumah was a gifted African student studying in London during the 1940s. He worked closely with W.E.B. DuBois to organize the 5th Pan African Conference (1945) in which many young African and Caribbean intellectuals pledged to work for the liberation of their individual countries and to cooperate for the benefit of all. [...]
During the 1950s and 1960s while most of the European colonies in Africa were gaining their independence, the southern tier of the continent remained firmly under white control. The region was fully occupied by 7 different British and Portuguese colonies. In 1965, when it appeared that Britain intended to grant independence to Southern Rhodesia, [...]
Analysis by Jennifer Viegas 7/18/12 If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings. Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal's [...]
President Obama, we have been told, had a white American mother and a Black Kenyan father. However, it has recently been discovered that one of his ancestors was an enslaved African American on his mother’s side of the family! Back in 18th century Virginia slavery, that is chattel slavery, did not exist. Instead there [...]
They say wherever Africans were taken in the Americas, they took their culture with them. And so just as Jazz is African rhythms with some European and Native American influence, and Santeria is a Catholic frame for the Yoruba religion, Black English (Ebonics) is American English expressed in the grammar and vocalization of African [...]
Humanity began in Africa 6,000,000 years ago. Every person on earth is descended from a woman who lived in Africa 250,000 years ago. The pharaohs ruled Egypt for 3,000 years. One of the earliest pharaohs built the Great Pyramid at Giza. It is still the largest building that the world has ever seen. It [...]
Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, David and Saul, Achilles and Agamemnon. What do these three pairs of leaders all have in common? An important lesson for the future that we can all learn by looking at the past. Will we heed the message and understand? The ancient Greeks were a proud, rebellious people. Each [...]