The region of present day Malawi was originally inhabited by the relatives of the Khoisan who migrated from the Kalahari Desert. By the 15th century, the area was ruled by the Maravi. By the late 18th and early 19th century, the Maravi…
“Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed l about the body of Moses, durst m not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” Jude 1:9-10 KJV
This statement or verse begs the question…
The first French expedition is estimated to have come to
Niger around 1890. The white French settlers controlled the black chiefs who in
turn controlled the local Africans. When discontent began to grow, several political
parties formed in Niger: The Niger Progressive Party (PPN)/ African…
Sudan was colonized by the British wanted to use the colony
as a cotton producer. The British gave Sudan independence in 1956, and it
became the largest country in Africa. However, they were divisions between the
Muslims in the north and Christians in the South.…
In the early 19th century, the area around the
Central African Republic was losing about 20,000 per year because of demand for
slaves in Egypt and Brazil. For a while the area became underpopulated and when
the French took over the area as a colony…
In 1932, the French divided the colony into Mali, Niger and the Ivory Coast
but by 1947 they reunited the colony. However, by then there was a growing
anti-colonial movement. The movement was led by the African Democratic Assembly
(RDA) and the Voltic Union (UDV).…
The capital Libreville was established in 1849 by freed
slaves who opted to go back home when they were set free. Slaves had been taken
as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Gabon is a small country in West
Africa right in the heart of…
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…
The Great Verónica I Guterres Kandala Kingwanga, ruled from
1681 to 1721, and consolidated the control of the Guterres dynasty while
creating a lasting precedent for female rulers. Verónica is believed to have
been a pious Christian, but also a fervent believer in Matamba's independence.
In…
Kwame Nkrumah was born in 1909, in the south west part of the Gold Coast (present day Ghana). His father was goldsmith who belonged to the Nzima tribe. Nkrumah was educated at the Roman Catholic Mission School and the great secondary school…