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Why Patrice Lumumba’s widow marched bare-breasted across Leopoldville in 1961
Patrice Lumumba was the indisputable hero of Congolese independence. Throughout his life, Patrice worked tirelessly to bring succor and respite to the people of Congo who, like their counterparts in other...
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How Queen Nzinga of Angola fought and held off Portuguese control for over 30 years
The Portuguese were the earliest European colonists to settle in Africa owing largely to the fascination of the ever-adventurous Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator. From the island of Azores down to...
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Top six busiest ports in Africa
Africa is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. But, seen from the angle of the economy, Africa is still small. For instance, in 2017, while the United States got the biggest slice of the...
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Rather than succumb to French colonialists, this African king ordered his guard to kill him
Although the kingdom of Kenedougou, inhabited by the proud people of Sikasso in the 19th century ancient Mali, had since disintegrated just like the strong empires that reigned in several parts of pre-colonial...
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The heroic colonial resistance of the last King of Dahomey who was defeated by the French and exiled in 1894
The Dahomey Kingdom, now in the present-day Republic of Benin, was a powerful regional state that controlled large areas and several tribes in pre-colonial West Africa around the 18th and 19th centuries...
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The intriguing festival in Niger which requires only men to contest in a beauty pageant
One of the biggest traditional events which occur annually in Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa is the Gerewol beauty pageants which surprisingly throw up only males and not females as contestants....