Since January 17, 1961, no one has been held accountable for the brutal murder of Congo’s independence leader and first prime minister Patrice Lumumba who was shot dead with two of his ministers, Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] However, all fingers point to multinational perpetrators who sanctioned the elimination of one of Africa’s […]
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Afrochella Is Ghana’s Ultimate Party With A Purpose | Essence
Cofounder and CEO Abdul Karim Abdullah hopes Year of the Return visitors will feel “a vibration of the country and what it feels like to be with the people.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On January 1, 2019, London-based British-Ghanaian lawyer Yvonne Kramo was definitely feeling some FOMO when she tweeted, “Christmas/ NYE 2018 clearly belonged to Accra. […]
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Who were the Moors? | National Geographic
IF THE TERM “Moor” seems familiar but confusing, there’s a reason: Though the term can be found throughout literature, art, and history books, it does not actually describe a specific ethnicity or race. Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain, Europeans of African descent, and […]
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Lost Ethiopian town comes from a forgotten empire that rivalled Rome | New Scientist
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient buried town in Ethiopia that was inhabited for 1400 years. The town was part of a powerful civilisation called Aksum that dominated East Africa for centuries and traded with other great powers like the Roman Empire. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “This is one of the most important ancient civilisations, but people [in […]
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READ: The revealing last letter written by Patrice Lumumba to the UN before his assassination | Face2Face Africa
Born on July 2, 1925, Patrice Emery Lumumba was only 36 when he was brutally assassinated on January 17, 1961. After being executed by firing squad, his body was exhumed and dissolved in acid. He was the first legally elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo after he helped the country gain its independence […]
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The amazing tale of John Edmonstone: the freed slave who taught Charles Darwin in Edinburgh | Edinburgh Live
As part of Black History Month, we take a look at a truly inspirational Edinburgh man who Darwin hired to teach him taxidermy
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These Moving Photos Show Life in Apartheid-Era South Africa | Global Citizen
Celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt took up photography in 1948, the same year the all-white National Party came into power and apartheid began in his country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though Goldblatt, pictured above, was just 18 at the time, documenting the impact of apartheid — the government-implemented system of racial segregation in South Africa — […]
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The most unusual ways many African countries got their names | Quartz Africa
The concept of nation states in Africa is only a bit over a century old, arising after the 1884 Berlin Conference and the subsequent Scramble for Africa by European superpowers of the time.
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Museums in France Should Return African Treasures, Report Says | The New York Times
PARIS — The sprawling Quai Branly Museum in Paris is stuffed with treasure. It has some 70,000 objects from sub-Saharan Africa in its collection, including magnificent statues from present-day Benin and delicate paintings that once decorated church walls in Ethiopia. But a long-awaited report coming out this week could have a dramatic impact on what […]
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Tutankhamen Head Sells for $6 Million, Despite Protests from Egypt | The New York Times
Christie’s said the sale was legal. But Egypt’s government says the antiquity was looted and should be returned.
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