1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest...

Tutankhamun was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who, in the New Kingdom of Egyptian history, was the last of his royal family to rule at the end of the 18th dynasty. His father was Pharaoh Akhenaten, who was thought to be the mummy found in the KV55 tomb. This wooden...

The name Africa is a phenomenon. Home to 1.216 billion people, the world’s second-largest population and 2nd largest continent after Asia. Africa is a renowned name that has traveled way beyond the shores of the Nile to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The name is...

According to a Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) report, “South Sudan’s livestock population is estimated at 12 million cattle, 20 million sheep and 25 million goats according to the National Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries...

Today, Christianity and Islam are religions practiced by the majority of people living in Africa. But before those two religions arrived, there were several traditional religions practiced. About 10 per cent of the African population is still practicing some form of...

Did you know that there are pyramids outside Egypt and Las Vegas? The undisputed kings of the pyramid-building world, in number at least, were the Kush Empire. The truth is that pyramids at Meroe, modern Sudan, were built between 2,700 and 2,300 years ago. This...

“The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all...

Sarah Baartman was born in 1780, her names were Saartjie or Sawtche or Ssehura which means diminutive form. She was from the Khoikhoi nomadic ethnic group that lived in the eastern  region of the Cape Colony in present day South Africa. Sarah was 4 ft 7in tall....

Cetewayo, King of the Zulu’s, was a hero in a war with the British, causing the most crushing defeat the English ever experienced from any Africans in modern history. His victory at Isandlhwana was one of the most terrifying slaughters in history. In 1879, the British...

On that beautiful Monday morning, Officer Teso reported to the B Division Police station at Ajah estate, to sign in for his riffle. He greeted his fellow officers, quickly collected his riffle and changed into his uniform. He was about to head out with his...

A child was maltreated by his stepmother when he was young. A child was flogged with iron rods.  A child had pepper put in his eyes for no just reason. A child’s back was burnt with electric pressing iron because he was too tired to wash plates when he got back...

The trans-Atlantic slave trade which saw to the successful shipping of some 12.8 million Africans to the New World, is arguably today the most horrendous atrocity of human history. For about four centuries, blacks from Africa were made to face the horrors of slavery...

  Mark Dean, an engineer, was instrumental in the invention of the modern personal computer. He owns three out of the nine Patents which were used by International Business Machines (IBM) to produce the Personal Computer (PC).          ...

Not until recently did most commentators on African literary history believe that African societies had any form of writing tradition. Since the rediscovery of ancient manuscript collections, with some dating back to at least the 8th century AD, this perception has...

The Songhai Empire during the 15th and 16th centuries was a kingdom that controlled the Western Sahel. It was one of the most important states in African history at its height. The state is known for its historiographic name, derived from the Songhai, its leading...

Although having existed, arguably, for thousands of years, the first sighting of the fascinating pyramids by a European was credited to British explorer Luke Walter, whose accounts of 1891 were undocumented until in 1935 when British anthropologist and colonial...

Most of the modern “inventions” and “technologies” were inspired by and/or modeled after ancient melanated people’s tools or practices. Black People Invented Civilization What is civilization? According to Dictionary.com’s definition – Civilization is an advanced...

October 20th, 2020 will be exactly 9 years since western imperialist joined one of the most deadliest forces to killed Muammar Gadaffi and destroyed the paradise he has built on the African continent. In spite of Gadaffi being Africa’s only strong hand in his time to...

More than a decade ago, a half-forgotten colonial expedition to subjugate what British colonialists considered a quarrelsome African kingdom more than a century ago could have left Britain bankrupt if a Ugandan king succeeded in bringing a £3.7 trillion suit against...

According to renowned American historian and linguist Leo Weiner of Harvard University, one of the strongest pieces of evidence to support the fact that Black people sailed to America before Christopher Columbus was a journal entry from Columbus himself. In Weiner’s...

The ceremonial dagger of King Tutankhamun, one having a hardened gold edge and the other one with a meteoric iron. Since the predynastic days, Dagger was used by the inhabitants of Kemet, although there are very prominent examples from the ancient kingdom. They were...

By Tarig AnterFula or Fulani or Fulbe (the latter being an Anglicization of the word in their language, Fulɓɓe) are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and The Sudan of east Africa. The...

Ile Ife is a former Yoruba city in Southwest Nigeria, it is also known as Ife. Ile Ife is said to have been recorded in about 500 B.C. When it was founded, and is Yoruba’s oldest city. IFE became part of Osun State and has an estimated population of 501,000...

Dentistry, in some form or another, has been practiced for at least 9,000 years, although tooth extraction and remedies for tooth aches probably go back much further. The study of ancient remains from around the world has demonstrated the ingenuity that existed in the...

The Mandinka belong to West African people that spread to different parts of The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast. Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande. They’re also known as Malinke, Mandingo among other different names. The...

For over 3,000 years, cats in ancient egypt have been depicted in Ancient Egyptians social and religious practices. Deity Mut was also portrayed as a cat and in the company of a cat. Cats have been embraced for killing venomous snakes and protecting the Pharaoh since...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)— Two of the UK's biggest institutions – the Church of England and the Bank of England – apologised today for their historic links to slavery with the church calling it "a source of shame". The apologies, reported by the Telegraph...

As for America’s annual Black History Month, actor Morgan Freeman spoke for many during this 2005 exchange with CBS’s Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes”: Wallace: “Black History Month, you find …”Freeman: “Ridiculous.”Wallace: “Why?”Freeman: “You’re going to relegate my...

The common knowledge that all men were made from Adam and Eve and that the world started in the garden of Eden is completely false. Humans have lived on earth for thousands of years, and the first humans were Black people. Blacks were the original humans, and from the...

When slavery is discussed in the media and is taught in schools, very little is mentioned of the strong and fierce resistance which Africans put up against the slavers and their accomplices. The bravery of African ancestors is often swept under the rug so that the new...

Apart from Christianity, Islam has been one of the more dominant religions in the African continent. Here in this article, we are going to go back in history to trail the genealogy of how the religion of Prophet Muhammad traveled all the way from the Arabian Desert to...

“High Chair” is the chair of a nation, traditionally positioned on a dais and surmounted by a canopy, illustrating the authority of the ruler who sits on it and often confers the power on it. Thrones are most often used as the symbols of authority of kings and...

Ever since the Europeans and Arabs invaded Kemet/Africa, over a thousand years ago, they have been fascinated and obsessed with the vast knowledge and heritage which the African continent houses. For centuries, they have dug up the ancient graves of notable Africans...