The rise and fall of Britain’s forgotten Black Panther movement. e forgotten Black Panther movement of Britain was created during the peak of the revolutionary African American Black Panther Party (BPP) founded to challenge police brutality against the black community. Going by the name British Black Panthers (BBP), the movement existed from 1968 to 1972 and was foundedContinue reading “The rise and fall of Britain’s forgotten Black Panther movement”
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1800s anti-lynching journalist honoured with a street named after her in Chicago
Chicago has honoured the unsung hero and 1800s investigative journalist, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against racist lynching of black men and pushed for women’s right to vote. Major downtown Chicago thoroughfare, Congress Parkway, was renamed Ida B. Wells Drive on Monday making it the first major street in the city named after a blackContinue reading “1800s anti-lynching journalist honoured with a street named after her in Chicago”
How Ethiopia won a battle that quashed a Dutch patent on its native grain
It didn’t happen in 1909 or 1943, but in 2003 when a Dutchman, Jans Roosjen, secured a patent on the processing of Ethiopia and Eritrea’s indigenous teff grain which is a staple found in most of their foods including the injera flatbread.This is how Ethiopia won a battle that quashed a Dutch patent on itsContinue reading “How Ethiopia won a battle that quashed a Dutch patent on its native grain”
How Congo became the private property of Leopold II of Belgium who exploited and butchered millions
The King of the Belgians, Leopold II, who ruled from 1865 to 1909 has been described as worse than Adolf Hitler for his genocide against the people of the Congo Free State (now Democratic Republic of Congo) who he considered as his personal property including their lands and minerals. An undetermined number of Congolese, rangingContinue reading “How Congo became the private property of Leopold II of Belgium who exploited and butchered millions”
Meet Africa’s foremost opposition leader who died while in prison for alleged plot against Nkrumah
Ghana is the first black African nation to become independent from colonial rule and the country’s history books will not be complete without the story of Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah, a lawyer, historian, scholar and the country’s first opposition leader who died in detention on February 4, 1965. Danquah’s political journey started in London whileContinue reading “Meet Africa’s foremost opposition leader who died while in prison for alleged plot against Nkrumah”
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