Before Barack Obama, Shirley Chisholm and Jessie Jackson,
George Edwin Taylor ran for President of the United States in 1904 as the
candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party, sometimes known as the National
Liberty Party.
Political Life
During the period when Taylor emerged…
In Nigeria among the Igbo
people there is a saying;
“When two brothers fight to the death it is the stranger who inherits the land”
This saying reflects the wisdom of the African
elders on the dangers of disunity. It is meant to…
Land Reform and Indigenization
All black people are better off in 2018 than they were in 1979 under the brutal Smith regime. In 2018, the Zimbabwean Tobacco Industry & Marketing Board (TIMB) reported Zimbabweans made history with a tobacco yield of…
The Livingstone Inland Mission (LIM) was an evangelical missionary society that operated in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1878 and 1884. Although this mission was initially funded by Henry Grattan Guinness and his wife Fanny, it was…
James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American to obtain a medical degree, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, compassionate physician, prolific writer, and public intellectual has been relatively neglected by historians of medicine. A native of New York, Dr.…
"The colonial powers that impoverished you, will never empower you."
The Land issue is not new in most countries and can be often used to explain the systematic economic inequality that exists in Africa. Colonialism created serious inequality in land ownership and land use and Malawi is not very unique in this…
Next time you hear western countries especially England, France, Belgium and Portugal discuss how much money they give in aid, ask when they will pay back what they stole. Over the next few months we will explore how history can help us…
Zimbabwe officially became Independent on April 18, 1980. Despite various economic setbacks, the people have been resilient and continue to make progress in education, in agriculture and in even in promoting racial equality.
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Prior to black majority rule, Prime Minister Ian Smith…
On March 16, 1984, Mozambique was forced to sign a special treaty with the apartheid government of South Africa known as the Nkomati Agreement. Mozambique promised not to allow the ANC (African National Congress) or any other South African liberation movements to…