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How the Seychelles Islands came to have its name
Located northeast of the unique Africa addendum that is Madagascar, Seychelles is an archipelagic nation with over 160 islands, according to the country’s constitution. Historians agree that for...
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Why did a Zulu king invite a delegation of Europeans to a meeting only to kill 100 of them?
The Piet Retief massacre carries for South Africans the sort of weight of sentiments national histories tend to have, particularly because of the politics of race in that country. The problem is not that...
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Four facts about Portugal’s unique participation in the Transatlantic slave trade
The numbers are not clear on how many people were taken from Africa to other parts of the world by European slave traders between the beginning of the 16th and the 19th centuries. Some estimations put...
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‘There are no Black leaders, just hustlers’ – Kushner reportedly told Kanye West
Rapper Kanye West has revealed a conversation he had with the Special Adviser to President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, in which the latter allegedly called the current crop of Black leaders “hustlers”....
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Do you know about Philip Reed, the enslaved man who put the Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol?
Perhaps, with regards to Philip Reed, a good example of the disrupted humanity of people of African descent in American history is that while he spelled his name as “Reed”, official U.S. records...
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Baby twins joined at the head separated in “ambitious” operation
A mother from the Central African Republic says she wants her twin daughters to grow and “become doctors to save other children” after the girls were successfully separated at the head...
