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Beautiful Somali models make Vogue Arabia’s first hijabi cover
Just a few weeks after Vogue featured an African on it’s cover, and Teen Vogue covered Marsai Martin and Nico Parker, the world’s top fashion magazine seems to have outdone itself this time...
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Why Jamaica’s Green Grotto Caves is the place to visit for a walk through history
The Green Grotto Caves isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of Jamaica but it is definitely a place worth visiting if you love a literal walk down history lane. Located...
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Buried at a rubbish dump, centuries-old bodies of tied enslaved Africans found in Portugal
In a bid to discover more about the slave trade, archaeologists are still working day in and out on several projects. Most recently, archaeologists discovered more than 150 skeletons of enslaved Africans...
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Meet the powerful Signare women of Senegal who controlled white traders and the slave trade in the 1800s
The transatlantic slave trade did not only have an effect on trade in both Africa and other parts of the world. It also affected the social developments of both societies. While enslaved Africans in the...
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Mumu, the deaf Sierra Leonean girl who became a missionary in the 1800s after her rescue from a slave ship
In 1846, Mumu along with over a thousand captured Africans were rescued by a British cruiser while the ship was embarking on a journey to the Americas. Mumu – as she was called by the fellow Africans...
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The uncelebrated contribution of Black Americans in the historic Bacon Rebellion of 1676
The Bacon Rebellion of 1676 is named after its organiser Nathaniel Bacon who single-handedly brought together people of all races living in the Virginia colony as a protest against Governor William Berkeley....
