Two interlinked but unfinished revolutions – one intellectual and one overtly political – have been playing a central role in Africa and the diaspora. Together they will help shape the trajectory of ...
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How African kingdoms built their own empires
Long before European conquest, powerful African empires expanded, traded, and ruled across borders. This film uncovers how kingdoms like Mali, Ethiopia, and Benin built systems of influence history ...
Ancient African Town. Macdonald, Fiona. (New York: Franklin Watts) 1998. Benin: An African Kingdom and Culture. Elliott, Kit. (Minneapolis: Lerner) 1979. Footsteps ...
AFA copy 39088019753995 gift from Janet Stanley. Since the beginning of time, Africa's been inhabited by humans. As one of the oldest civilizations, it is suspected that mankind first originated from ...
"The Woman King," a new film that stars Viola Davis and is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, is a chronicle of Black female power. It tells the story of the Agojie, fierce women warriors in the ...
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Why didn’t African kingdoms colonize the Americas?
This animated history video explains why major African kingdoms did not colonize the Americas, even though West Africa appears geographically close to Brazil. It explores how Atlantic winds, ocean ...
The first episode looks at Nubia, in what is now northern Sudan, a kingdom that dominated a vast area of the eastern Sahara for thousands of years. Its people were described as barbarians and ...
In July of 2007, during a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy infamously said: “The tragedy of Africa is that the African ...
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