Queen Baramparaye was the last both Queen consort and Queen mother of Burundi. Born in 1929, she married her husband late King Mwambutsa iv of Burundi in 1946 at the young age of 18 as his second wife. Mwabutsa iv was firstly married to Queen Therese Kanyonga who he...

RetiredArmyLt. Col. Barnard Kemter’s mic was cut while he was talking about the role formerly enslaved Blacks played in the creation of Memorial Day — Screenshot via HCTV video An army veteran who was invited to speak at a ceremony to commemorate Memorial Day...

The cave had been occupied for nearly two million years up until the early 1900s — intriguing researchers about its value Canadian and Israeli researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence of human occupation in a cave, dating back about two million years until...

Himba tribe is indigenous to Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) in northern Namibia and southern Angola. Himba tribe is perhaps best known for coloring their hair and bodies with a red color paste (otjize), which is considered a sign of beauty. The otjize mixture is a...

Red costumes, ochre-coloured hair and brightly-coloured headgear. These are just some of the characteristics of the different African tribes. And just as they look different, they have different traditions, too. Some tribes have distinctive spitting rituals, others...

Queen Tiye’s family and early life Also known as Taia, Tiy or Tiyi, Queen Tiye was born in 1398 BC. The father; Yuya, was a provincial priest in the town of Akhmim and also acted as a commander of the royal chariots. He owned a large chunk of land and was considered...

Ancient mummies of Egypt’s royal pharaohs emerged from their resting places Saturday and were paraded through the streets of Cairo to a new home. What sounds like the plot of a movie was part of a lavish celebration of Egypt’s history and a project to relocate some of...

The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose homeland covers much of Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Angola, are often also known as Bushmen or the San people. They are traditionally nomadic hunters and...

The Mandinka (also known as the Mandingo and Malinke, among other names) are a West African people spread across parts of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. With a global population of some 11 million, the Mandinka are the best-known...

PYRAMIDS, TYPE OF PYRAMIDS, WHAT IS PYRAMID?  Pyramid is specially one building of  stone and a symbol of Royal tomb of ancient Egypt which shows the hidden culture and  hidden treasure of Egypt.  All pyramids are not in the list of seven...

SPHINX, FIRST SUN TEMPLE, HISTORY OF SPHINX, AGE OF SPHINEX, MYSTERIES STORY OF SPHINX Sphinx is a statue whose body is the  lion body and human head. The great Sphinx Statue may found at Giza, Egypt.  In this statue found some clue regarding the God of SUN....

Often when we tell what happened in the story we hardly think about diseases and it seems that all the characters were always healthy and perky, but even then the ailments prospered, as well as today in various measures and reasons. If over time medicine has made a...

Perhaps because of the crisis that Egypt was going through or perhaps because man does not live on chicken alone, the fact is that at this point the people of Babylon burst into history, which up to that moment had enjoyed themselves in their lustful isolation,...

We left Egypt in a lethal torpor, the doing nothing of the pharaohs who have succeeded in recent years and rightly forgotten by history as well as the laziness that had taken over both the pharaohs and his subjects, had given way to the arrival of the terrible Hyksos...

Someone also calls him Amenofi I ° generating a certain disorientation among those who try to understand something in the intricate web of the pharaohs’ successions. In any case he was the son, not firstborn, of Ahmose and Nefertari, it is not clear why although he...

One of the most revered Presidents in Africa, Paul Kagame of Rwandan has since been trending on social media for what many refer to as an act of a true leader. Reports have it that, President Paul Kagame have ordered the deportation of eighteen(18) Chinese Nationals...

Secrets behind the ancient Egyptian mummification process, revealed. Preserving a dead body was a widespread practice, common to many societies of the past. Perhaps the most well-known rituals belong to the ancient Egyptians, who kept corpses intact through a process...

David Stuurman, who has just had an airport named after him, was one of the first leaders of resistance to colonial expansion in South Africa, yet few people in the country know much about him, as the BBC's Mohammed Allie reports. To the colonial establishment of the...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Algerian-Canadian journalist Maher Mezahi reflects on the recent moves by France to repair relations with its former colony Algeria, especially concerning the bitter war of independence. Does French President Emmanuel...

One of the greatest civilizations in our history belonged to the ancient Egyptians. It flourished in the fertile valleys of the world’s longest river - the Nile, where a magnificent civilization rose from the surrounding sands and lasted for roughly 3,000 years....

Who built the Great Pyramid? Was it built by simple Egyptian farmers with mud ramps, or aliens, or a lost society from the last Ice Age? Did the ancient Egyptians inherit this massive stone building from a lost time, and then build their own smaller, cruder versions...

Do you believe that dreams can foretell the future? If you do, then you are not alone. The divination of dreams, or oneiromancy as it is also called, has its roots in the ancient world. For instance, in the Book of Genesis, joseph, the son of the Jewish Patriarch,...

 A man in Durham is advocating for better Black history education in schools in order to enhance Black lives in the world. Minister Paul Scott is the founder of the Durham-based Black Messiah Movement. For 15 years, he has stood at the same bus stop in Durham...

The Hausa City States were independent political entities in what is now northern Nigeria.  The first of the states, Gobir and Rano, emerged around 1000.  All of the states remained independent until they were conquered by the sultanateof Sokoto between 1804 and 1815....

Malcolm X, one of the most influential African American leaders of the 20th Century, was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925 to Earl Little, a Georgia native and itinerant Baptist preacher, and Louise Norton Little who was born in the West Indian...

Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, one of the Founding Fathers of the Republic of Nigeria, was born on July 18, 1912 in the city of Warri to an Itsekiri Prince, Okotie Eboh of Jakpa. His mother, Ekayoda Ojegba was from another ethnic group, Urhobo in Okpe Land in Delta...

The Dogon tribe is a community of people living in present-day Mali. Their original point of migration to their present locale is not known, however, some scholars have traced their ancestry to the ancient Egyptian empire. They are about 300,000 in population...

France, 1920: Marcel Griaule is a young man who is very well-established in his studies, especially in mathematics. He has recently served as a volunteer in the French Air Force and aspires to attend the prestigious Lycée Louis le Grande. Although his future already...

An ancient Eygptian tomb excavated in 1907 still holds mysteries. Chief among them: Who exactly was buried there? Was it Akhenaten, a radical pharaoh who overturned all the Egyptians knew about their many deities and elevated one “true” god above all others—Aten? A...

In 1907, a mysterious tomb was discovered in Egypt. Known as KV55, the tomb contained a variety of artifacts and a single body. Identification of the body has been complicated by the fact that the artifacts appear to belong to several different individuals. It has...

The Kingdom of Kerma was an antiquated civilization that existed between 2500 BC and 1500 BC, with its capital in the city of Kerma. It was situated in the core of Sudanese Nubia and is the main provable sub-Saharan realm to have existed. The Kingdom of Kerma is...

The Great Ashanti Empire was a pre-colonial West African express that arose in the seventeenth century in what is currently Ghana. The Ashanti or Asante was an ethnic subgroup of the Akan-talking individuals and was made out of little chiefdoms. The Ashanti set up...

In the heart of Cape Town, a control room buzzes with activity. Technicians monitor a grid of screens, scanning data that will soon make its way to astronomers working to deepen our understanding of the universe. Operated by the South African Radio Astronomy...

Two young Kenyan innovators have started an initiative which will contribute immensely towards the campaign to make life easier for persons living with disabilities. The innovators, David Gathu and Moses Kinua who live about 30killiometers from Nairobi have built...

 A judge on Thursday march 11, 2021 reinstated a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death. The ruling comes a day after the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up the issue and...

TheWolofpeople have a long and glorious history. The Wolof people were first recorded in the 15th century. The Wolof, on the other hand, had long lived along West Africa’s coasts, having moved west after the Ghana Empire collapsed four centuries before. The Wolof...

If there is any character in the Senegalese political history who is worthy of praise among others, then that person is Aline Sitoe Diatta, the 20-year old young woman who resisted French colonialism without fear and earned the present-day title: “La femme qui était...

French President, Emmanuel Macron has officially admitted that, French forces rather tortured and murdered Algerian freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel as against the earlier cover up story of suicide which was widely circulated. It could be recalled that, during the heat...

In the African social construct especially among the people of ancient Mali; griots or traditional musicians played crucial roles in educating the masses about the history of the land, motivating warriors and even tutoring future leaders. Some of the roles played by...

Faith Odunsi, a 15-year-old Nigerian student who made her country and the continent proud after defeating students from European countries, America, Asia among others during a mathematical competition narrates her success story. Speaking in an interview with The Punch...

In 1990 the South African government released Nelson Mandela from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa after more than 28 years of incarceration including more than 20 years in South Africa’s most notorious prison, Robben Island.  Here is the speech he...

After Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he and representatives of the African National Congress (ANC) began a public period of negotiations in preparation for majority rule in that nation.  The negotiations were set back however when ANC leader...

In the nearly half century between 1900 and 1945, various political leaders and intellectuals from Europe, North America, and Africa met six times to discuss colonial control of Africa and develop strategies for eventual African political liberation. In the article...

Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa Goro Province, Ethiopia. His mother was Yeshimbet Ali Abajiffar and his father was Ras (Duke) Makonnen Wolde Michael, Governor of Harrar, relative of...

Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was West African royalty before he was enslaved on a Mississippi plantation. After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was desperate to make the man about to purchase him, Thomas Foster, understand his...

Forget today’s tech billionaires, the wealth of Mansa Musa of Mali was too vast to be imagined—or equaled. In the vast fictional universe of Marvel Comics, T’Challa, better known as Black Panther, is not only king of Wakanda, he’s also the richest superhero of...

The Golden Stool (full title, Sika Dwa Kofi) has been the symbol of power in Ashanti Kingdom since the 17th century. According to oral tradition, Okomfo Anokye, a High Priest and one of the two founders of the Ashanti Confederacy, conjured the Golden Stool,...

Khafre was a mesopotamian king of the fourth dynasty during the Ancient Kingdom of Egypt. He was Khufu’s son and Djedefre’s successor. Per the former historian Manetho, Khafre was replaced by Emperor Bikheris, but then by Ruler Menkaure as archeological discoveries he...

Queen Nzinga Mbande was the leader (ruler) of the Mbundu Kingdom of the Ndongo (1583-1663), once alluded to as Anna Nzinga, in what is currently Angola. Queen Anna Nzinga (roughly 1581-1663) one of the unmistakable ladies’ leaders of Africa. She controlled (ruled)...

The Wodaabe tirbe by other name Mbororo (Adlam) are small ethnic community of the Fulani who on historic records nomadic cattle-husbandry and traders in the Sahel with migration from Southern Niger to North, Northeast Cameroon, South-east Chad to West and Northeast of...

Living on Komoto Island, Lake Turkana, EL MOLO TRIBE was once the world’s smallest tribe, totaling just 99 in number. This tribe was termed the lowest in total comparably to some other tribes in different countries in the global community. Traditional norms abd values...

Respectively living in Zimbabwe and South Africa is a Ndebele tribe with very unique and cultural ways of life. Ndebele, also widely adorned and on a recognizable point of view as Transvaal Ndebele. This great tribe is one of the Bantu-speaking African communities...

Nearly 80 years before the Dred Scott decision, a midwife used the Massachusetts constitution to fight for her liberty. A portrait of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mum Bett, on display by the Massachusetts legislature in observance of Black History Month. She was...

Egypt announced on Wednesday that it had retrieved some 5,000 ancient items from the United States, after years of negotiations to return what it said were fraudulently acquired items. In a statement, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed the "arrival at...

In school, most of us did not learn about a “Black Planet”. Our history lessons did not exceed the timeline of caucasian history, as if nothing that happened before Greece and Rome. Most of our teachers never emphasized the fact that black people...

Akon may not be lonely for much longer. The famed R&B singer is going ahead with plans to build a new $6 billion smart city in Senegal where nationals can live and work—and where members of the African Diaspora will always be welcome. The 47-year-old Senegalese...