The story of the last illegal shipment of 110 slaves to the United States from the Kingdom of Dahomey (present-day Benin) in 1860 is widely known, but the account of the survivors was unavailable until May 8, 2018. Thanks to a resurfaced 1931 interview with the last survivor of the slave ship Clotilde, Cudjo Lewis, whichContinue reading “Cudjo Lewis, the last U.S. slave ship survivor from Benin who founded Africatown”
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Miriam Makeba, Africa’s first Grammy Award winner was born on this day in 1932
Zenzile Miriam Makeba, popularly known as Mama Africa, was a South African music icon born on March 4, 1932. She is one of the first African musicians to gain worldwide recognition after starting her singing career in her primary school choir in Pretoria. With a difficult upbringing during the apartheid days in South Africa, MakebaContinue reading “Miriam Makeba, Africa’s first Grammy Award winner was born on this day in 1932”
How CIA planned to wear blackface during Nkrumah’s overthrow to attack Chinese Embassy in Ghana
It’s been 53 years since the first president of an independent country in sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a coup d’etat on February 24, 1966. He was out of Ghana on a peace mission to Hanoi aimed at bringing an end to the United States intervention in Vietnam. In 24 hours, lower-rankingContinue reading “How CIA planned to wear blackface during Nkrumah’s overthrow to attack Chinese Embassy in Ghana”
How Malcolm X became a serious threat to the U.S. after his Africa visit
Malcolm X was one of the most influential black people in the history of the United States and a strong advocate for Pan-Africanism. Malcolm X became a serious threat to the U.S. after his Africa visit Pan-Africanism – the global movement encouraging the bond of solidarity between people of African descent – gave birth toContinue reading “How Malcolm X became a serious threat to the U.S. after his Africa visit”
The earliest shipment of slaves to the Americas and the men behind the horror
The transatlantic slave trade that existed between the 16th and the 19th centuries is considered the largest enslavement of black Africans captured from central and western Africa and cruelly transported mainly to the Americas. Slave trade in general, was already a thriving venture among the Arabs who had been trading in black slaves centuries beforeContinue reading “The earliest shipment of slaves to the Americas and the men behind the horror”
Ismail Akwei 